Bookish Detective Gifts

Nonviolent Clue.

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

'Anything on suspended animation?'

Doctor

You have the right to remain silent

"Watson - look! The Cheshire cat burglar!"

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"My novel is not a doorstop!"

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

"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."

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

A man on a giant book poses as Rodin's The Thinker.

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

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

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

'Oddly enough you're the third person to buy that today!'

The evidence destroyed

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

"Some Debussy, Igor."

'They said 'write what you know.' So I didn't write anything.'

Fiction. Mystery. History.

"It's a 12 inch chess board - the game's a foot."

Mysteries.

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

'If you're using this for research into your next book then you can sleep in the spare room!'

Bibliomaniac

"I have always depended on the content of strangers."

"It's such a nice day. Why don't you go outside and plagiarize something?"

Man read's Newton's 'Philosophiae Naturalis Principa Mathematica' and says: 'Blimey Isaac, this is, er, pretty heavy stuff.'