Detective Fiction Buff Gifts

'Did your husband have any enemies?'

Joan Hickson

'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?'

The Philip Marlow family

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

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

"Now calm down Ma'am. If you want to report a murder I'll patch you through to Detective Malone in homicide. This is Sergeant Flanagan....Insecticide!"

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

Crime Writer's Society.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"The butler did it!"

Marriage Crash Investigation

"Hmmm...this'll be a tough one..."

Holmes and Watson: Solutions Solutions

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

Mutant Mootunes - Incased in Ice Miss Marple

Shakespeare in the park Mickey Spillane in the alley.

'Would've got away with it, too, if the cops hadn't framed me.'

'Yelling 'open the door, it's us' probably won't help, since we've forgotten the password.'

Schlock Holmes

'A piece of skin from the killer's arm, by jove. Let's go back to the lab, clone it, and identify the murderer when he grows up.'

Sherlock Holmes gets back at Professor Moriarty through reduced research funding.

Lady of the house pregnant - "The butler did it."

'Have we found a scandal in here?'

"Sure I can run a few experiments for you, baby, but it'll cost you. I get $275 per day, plus expenses. Instruments, software, chemicals...all extra."

'Chief, the lab analyzed the keyboard. The suspect smokes, has long fingernails, and eats a whole of of cheese crackers.'

'Well, Watson, it appears as if my hunch was correct...'

Detective follows footprints leading to a pair of shoes.

"I thought we agreed I was the bad cop this week."

"Quick! Follow that dish and spoon!"