Collecting Detective Novels Gifts

Sherlock Holmes

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

"We finally got the guy who's been hitting all these birdseed stores!"

"I always wondered why they called you detectives, 'gum shoes'."

"I believe this is a case for Sherlock Holmes..."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

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

The Philip Marlow family

Redlaw and the Phantom

Stephen King

"Now don't do anything flashy with the money, like pay off all your student loans at once."

"I've sewn on 2 right hands, and have made you ambidextrous!"

"This, Yorik... Do you know him well?"

"I couldn't finish that book either."

"Let's try it again. Hand over your wallet, and this time, don't try anything funny."

Diary of a DNA Cop

Charles Dickens

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

"Someone to collect your works, dear."

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

"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?"

"Any clues?"

'I'm a simple man really beneath the code words and the black ops and the multitude of fake passports.'

'This assignment calls for a chicken.'

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

Crime

Romantic Fiction...

"I thought you might like to have a merrier brain for the new millennium!"

A stranger calls to see me

'Oh, how moving, it's a woodland burial, Dennis.'

My aunt astonishes me

Trilby - 'The last they saw of Svengali'.

John le Carre goes to MI6 heaven-RIP