Book Sleuth Mugs

Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"Today, I'll be cherry-picking from Deuteronomy."

"We should start a church where we only read the parts of the bible that are never read in church."

"I see you're back from church. What was cherry-picked for you today?"

"Well did he?"

"He was furiously reading the Bible before he died." "Looking for loopholes."

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

'You've been killing files again.'

"Unfortunately, what you downloaded from the net is a ten-year-old paper I once wrote for my college boyfriend!"

'I've forgotten the author and title - do you read minds?'

Locking Up Crime

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

Man reading a book in the library. Notices a man next to him reading all book about spying.

"Any truth to the rumor that your book is ghost-written?"

"This can't be soup....where are all the little letters that usually float in it?"

Whodunits

"Where's your section of books that tell you simple things you already know?"

Egyptian Library: 'Every week you take out the same book, Anubis.'

"It's got my current Wordle winning streak on it."

"Sword drills just aren't the same since Bible apps."

Mystery and suspense at the library.

"And God said, 'Let there be light.'" "CFL, incandescent or LED?"

"That book is kept downstairs in the Big Secret Important Book Room."

'She said to read between the lines to infer the answer, but it's hard to see in between them because they're so close together.'

Crime

"Quit worrying about corroborating your sources - it's not as if anyone's going to take all this literally."

Conflicting Reports

Closing Laugh Mystery Publications

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

"Murder, eh? They nabbed me for bargain-hunting without a license."