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'Let this guy go. He's working under cover.'

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Giant pandas doing surveillance in a zoo.

'Choose, Fenster

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

"Then leave the horses head in the Futon." Middle-class mafia

'I don't know officer: They all look alike to me...'

'Keep an eye on that one. He looks like a sketchy character to me.'

Barry Unsworth

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

Lord Byron

"Paper or plastic?"

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

"It's a novel about interest rates."

"... and I would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you meddling forensic pathologists."

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

"It's a beautiful day except for the murders."

Sylvia Plath

"Make it look like an accident"

"Gee, Marshal, he must have been one of the good guys"

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

Handcuffs.

Book

The old fashioned, never say die author: 'All right, if they're remaindered, I'll sign the remainders.'

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

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"It's a stream of consciousness novel like 'Ulysses' I just sort of sat down and wrote it without even thinking of a plot have you had drink I', going to get a seat where do you come from it's hot in here I like blue do you like blue..."

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