Crime Novel Aficionado Mugs

'Just one more killing then I'll switch the light off.'

'If it's a mystery you're after, how about what the council are doing closing libraries?'

Pickpocketing woman has three arms.

"I've gathered you all here today, to find out who borrowed my Agatha Christie and never returned it."

"Now, were those friends of your Gettys or Gottis?"

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

The Elliot Ness monster.

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

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

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

The Big Book of Suspicious Crawl Spaces

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."

"I'm not leading the witness; I'm winding up my segment on heinous crimes!"

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

'During the break, my client stole my wallet.'

'They're very proud of me. I'm the first in my family to be convicted of a white-collar crime.'

'Your honor, I'd like a short recess so my client can make a run for it.'

Crime in bookshop

Police outline artist training academy: the intro 101 class.

"A major crime publisher is interested in publishing your homework!"

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

Oliver Twist - Oliver Introduced to Fagin

The old good-cop, psycho-cop routine.

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

"Undiagnosed serial killer"

Fish mobsters.

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

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

The Ballad of the Lavender Dot - Part Three

"By Ned, you're right, inspector—the body has been moved."