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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!"

'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?'

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Giant pandas doing surveillance in a zoo.

'Choose, Fenster

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'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.'

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

Mafia Short-Term Memory Clinic. 'Fuhgettaboutit.'

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

Barry Unsworth

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

"It's a novel about interest rates."

Lord Byron

"Paper or plastic?"

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

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

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

Book

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

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

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

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

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

Handcuffs.

Sylvia Plath

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

"Make it look like an accident"

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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