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."

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

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

'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.

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

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

"Some Debussy, Igor."

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

The evidence destroyed

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

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

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

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

Mysteries.

Bibliomaniac

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

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

"Wow - A flying Chaucer!!"

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

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"