Crime Fiction Buffs Mugs

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?"

"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!'

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

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

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

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

"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

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

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

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'...?'

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

"Any clues?"

'Where was I on the night of the 7th of August? I was home washing my hair.'

A dead Olive found stabbed, in a Cocktail drink