Crime Fiction Buff Gifts

Mutant Mootunes - Incased in Ice Miss Marple

Lady of the house pregnant - "The butler did it."

'That will be a penny for the plastic bag. . .'

To Serve, Protect, Spy.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

hard-boiled egg...

'You know too much,'

"But he had a mask and I thought he was a burglar."

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

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

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

Cat Burglar

"Pardon me, Vito, but I'm holding the talking stick now."

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

"The numbers don't lie . . . but we do."

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

'You shouldn't knock them back so quickly.'

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

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"I felt I could make more of a difference within the system."

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

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

'All right pal, just hand over the nose and nobody gets hurt.'

The evidence destroyed

'This could be me and you, your honor. Heading for Las Vegas!'

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

"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."

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

Crime in bookshop

'Mark Antony addreses the mob'

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

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

PARALEGAL, 'Hi -- I'm a paracriminal.'