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Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"That's her - that's the girl who broke into our house! But her hair was 'goldier'."

"Puss in cement boots"

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?"

"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."

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

Crime in bookshop

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

"I'll never understand it. I followed the generally accepted principles of embezzling."

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

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

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

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

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

"I couldn't finish that book either."

Stand and Deliver

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

A spy

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

"The robber was about 5' 11"...."

Arrest of La Tuta

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

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

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

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

"Any clues?"

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

'Emotional blackmail.'