Crime Storytelling Gifts

"This guy's smoking DOPE...I'll get backup!" Wall street Fraud

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

"Evidence suggests she was working on the puzzle, got up to make tea, husband enters and puts last piece in..."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

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

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

Joan Hickson

The Elliot Ness monster.

A Vase has fallen on a cat's head. Are mice to blame?

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

The mysterious Sherlock Holmes - 'Is he wearing his cap backwards or forwards?'

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

'When you get up on the stand be sure to keep your answers short. A whole lot of barking will only frighten the jury.'

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

"You dropped yer wallet."

"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?"

"That's hardly necessary!"

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

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

"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."

Mystery of the Poets

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

'I believe the murderer is in this very room.'

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

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

"Homes on Holmes"

Snow Crime

"Amazing deduction, Holmes!"

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

'I have a bad feeling about this place, Watson... and I smell a rat!'