Detective Novel Enthusiast Gifts

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

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

Joan Hickson

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

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

'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

Writers wait in their area of expertise.

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

"I couldn't finish that book either."

"Let's try it again. Hand over your wallet, and this time, don't try anything funny."

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

Crime Writer's Society.

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

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

"I believe this is a case for Sherlock Holmes..."

"Any clues?"

'I'm a simple man really beneath the code words and the black ops and the multitude of fake passports.'

Agatha Christie

Marriage Crash Investigation

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"I always wondered why they called you detectives, 'gum shoes'."

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

Holmes and Watson: Solutions Solutions

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

"The butler did it!"

Mutant Mootunes - Incased in Ice Miss Marple

Crime

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

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Schlock Holmes

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

Sherlock Holmes is stymied.