Crime Fiction Buffs Gifts

Shakespeare in the park and Mickey Spillane in the alley.

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

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?"

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

"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."

Crime in bookshop

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

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."

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?"

"I couldn't finish that book either."

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

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

A spy

Stand and Deliver

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

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

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

Diary of a DNA Cop

Arrest of La Tuta

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

"We the jury find that the murder was committed by Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick!"

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

"Any clues?"

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