British Novels Mugs

Little Nell and Mr Quilp (opening to Ch. 6)

Edgar Allen Poe

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

"Harry Potter and the People Who Care Way Too Much About Harry Potter"

Murder in Apartment 6-K

"Oh, this old thing?"

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

Non-Creative Writing, Also Known as Plagiarism 101.

"Either we spend millions on new technology to erase each agent's memory following a sensitive assignment, or we just start hiring people over fifty."

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

The Philip Marlow family

"'A body at rest'? -- Are you writing murder mysteries now, Isaac?"

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

"We need rain."

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

Larry's Literary Market

'I don't care how you do it...just make it look like an accident.'

I always forget - Are we supposed to tip?

The lonely figure

"I've been dumping bodies here for years, and it seems to me that the sea level is rising."

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

Mystery of the Poets

"Don't be a sentimental fool, Harker!"

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

'The police is looking for a teenager who reads books... I bet they'll never solve this case!'

'Oooh. By Emily Bronte. A very controversial book...Cruelty! Passion! Death! Risky territory for a woman author in the 1800s.'

Cosa Nostradamus: "Listen, you mook. I predict if you don't pay the vig to the Don by tonight you'll be at the bottom of the Hudson by morning."

Subway Thrillers

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

Company Ink.

Mafia Family Life: 'I'm sorry dear - but I had to bring some work home!'