Crime Fiction Fanatic Gifts

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

"I want you to want to help bury the evidence."

"Give me your name, address, and date of birth."

After dinner Brenda took Dave home to meet the family.

'It looks like some sort of threatening note.'

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

The last chance

Crime

"Having looked at the evidence against you I think the best advice I can give is 'run, run for your life, leave the country... never look back."

"When Frankie told me this was how you two thought we launder money, I just had to see it for myself!"

The Great Escape

'This is what you get for outsourcing the white lining contract to the Police scenes of crime unit!'

'Now, this gentleman wants to take all your money and you want to keep it - it seems to me that we have the basis for an equitable COMPROMISE.'

"Quit calling me 'boss.' You ratted me out. I ain't your stinkin' boss no more."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'The world was stunned today when the Sopranos put out a contract on the Three Tenors....'

Safe breaker's diagnosis

'We only need it for fifteen or twenty minutes.'

A dead Olive found stabbed, in a Cocktail drink

'So this is how you repay our kindness, Eddie...? By running your own little numbers game on the side.'

"After 30 years on the police force, Beth and I decided to open this B&B. You want to keep your hands where I can see them and empty your pockets?"

"Honey, did we order a hit?"

The Elliot Ness monster.

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

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

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.'

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

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

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.