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"Okay, boss, I'm gonna tell you what Tommy's doing and, remember, I meant it in the most literal sense."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"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."

Cat Burglar

"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.'

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

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

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

"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?"

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

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

The evidence destroyed

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

'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."

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."

"This little piggy went to market, this little piggy drove the getaway car..."

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."

Moses as a mobster.

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