Classic Detective Fiction Fan Prints

"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?"

Crime in bookshop

"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."

Gulliver's other travels.

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

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

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

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

A spy

'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

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

Crime Writer's Society.

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

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

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

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

"Any clues?"

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

"We have ways of making you talk."

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

'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.'

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

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

"The butler did it!"