Classic Detective Fiction Fan Pillows

"I hate to be a wet blanket, Officer, but I wish to report my purse has been snatched."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

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

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

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

"And just how do you expect to become a made man, son, without a solid liberal-arts education?"

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

Gulliver's other travels.

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

Crime in bookshop

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

CSI Wonderland. (Photographer takes a picture of a cracked Humpty Dumpty. Investigators collect evidence from the scene.)

Cop Shop: Bulk, dried blood, shaved hair, ground teeth, assorted body parts and bone fragments.

"I'm sorry- when you said 'bad' cop, I assumed you meant incompetent."

"Oh come on! How can you possibly know that it's Yorick without a proper forensic reconstruction?"

'This article says there was a break-in at the museum last night. I don't suppose you know anything about that.'

Stand and Deliver

A spy

'I can't understand how those burglars could clean out our house so quietly.'

"Why are you always picking people who have pixellated heads?"

Diary of a DNA Cop

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

Crime Writer's Society.

'Have you got any good 'whodunnits'...?'

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

"We the jury find that the murder was committed by Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick!"

"Any clues?"

"Generally accepted accounting practices weren't as generally accepted as I thought."

Two books from the crime passionel section in a library having sex

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

Where were you on the night of December 24th between 10pm and 5am

'It wasn't me - but I'm sure whoever did it had a good reason. Looks, charm and 10 aliases only get you so far.'

"We have ways of making you talk."

"This is too hard, but I'd recognize him on his own."