Collecting Mystery Novels Gifts

'Slippery Sid' the con man strikes again!

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

"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."

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Murder in Apartment 6-K

"That's five votes for In The Midst of Winter....three votes for The Hollow Ground....and, again, one vote for Moby-Dick."

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

"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."

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

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

Alice in Wonderland-Hare and Hatter putting Dormouse in Teapot

The Philip Marlow family

'The pile of unread books by the bed looks bigger than the futon...'

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

'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.'

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

"OK, we may not have ways of making you talk, but we do have ways of making your leg twitch uncontrollably."

"We need rain."

'Believe me, you don't want to know what's in it.'

Mystery of the Poets

'..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

Redlaw and the Phantom

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!'

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

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

Mysteries.

Subway Thrillers

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

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

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."

Company Ink.

"I've run out of invisible ink..."