Detective Fiction Buff Mugs

'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.'

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

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

Crime Writer's Society.

"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.'

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

Where were you on the night of December 24th between 10pm and 5am

"The butler did it!"

Agatha Christie

Holmes and Watson: Solutions Solutions

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Marriage Crash Investigation

Mutant Mootunes - Incased in Ice Miss Marple

Shakespeare in the park Mickey Spillane in the alley.

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

Schlock Holmes

I thought you might want to color it in. Color chalk. 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 4 5 5

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

'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.'

'Have we found a scandal in here?'

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

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

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

"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."

Detective follows footprints leading to a pair of shoes.

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

"I get it- the old caffeinated-cop, decaffeinated-cop routine."