Detective At Heart Gifts

"Admit it, we're lost."

Bob spent years tracking down his birth parents only to discover the awful truth. They lied. He had never been adopted.

'Curious Man Discovers Magnifying Glass With His Magnifying Glass.

"Missing"

'Apparently Bill has had his identity stolen.'

"Now listen to me, Kevin..."

Hunting the lion

'The victim has defense wounds. When the art challenged her, she clearly put up a fight.'

Spiro & Pusho on the minefield

'It all happened so fast - they beat me unconscious . . . next thing I know I wake up and my glasses are gone.'

Closing Laugh Mystery Publications

'That was Colonel Mustard. He'd like a mop, some bleach and several large trash bags brought to the conservatory right away.'

Clues.

'?'He was definitely here earlier. Looks like he gave us the slip.'

'Fingerprints on your laptop screen?... wow, that's a real mystery.'

Talk to your plants. But first, make sure they aren't wearing a wire: "...And make it look like a tobogganing accident."

"...but I have a fourth Epstein theory..."

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

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

'So let me see if I've got it straight. It was a very large squirrel and your husband is a nut.'

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

CSI: Mother Goose Unit...'Hmmm...I'm beginning to suspect that perhaps mister Dumpty's demise wasn't simply a tragic accident.'

Barks in code.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'No doubt about it Captain. See these markings? This arrow belongs to Robin Hood!'

'Still not ready to talk? Ok dip him again.'

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

Missing Persons...'I'm not sure when she disappeared - sometime during the football season.'

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

hard-boiled egg...

'You know too much,'

"I'll have the Investigator's Special."

"First Lady Lettuce goes missing, then Colonel Crouton followed by Reginald Radish... Great Caesar's Ghost! Someone is making a salad!"

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

"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."