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"Any clues?"

"Ah Watson, reducing your taxes was simplicity itself. They were but elementary deductions."

David Suchet

"Where were you five minutes ago when someone was stealing my getaway car?"

"It looks like we've got a serial killer somwhere out there!"

Crime

The Tin Man is missing, and authorities expect foul play.

Detective

Spies

"The planning was meticulous, the execution was flawless. Henry would've got away with it, if he hadn't tried to claim the ice pick as an essential work expense.

"Is this some kind of scam?"

"What do we think Sarge, suicide?"

Violin Pipe

"I'm my own worst enemy. Does that make me the prime suspect?"

To Do-In List

'-not to worry, Mrs.Bates, I have three of my best men combing the City for him right now...'

Yes, inspector, it's another cold-blooded murder!

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

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

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

Sorry Ma'am, but forensics seem to indicate your husband has 'Gone Fishing'...

'This obesity epidemic is really cutting into our chalk supply.'

Watson, this is the footprint of a gigantic hound!

Agatha Christie

"We'd been estranged for years."

"Amazing report - it's good this Captain Marvel fellow is on our side."

"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?"

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

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

"Evidence suggests she was working on the puzzle, got up to make tea, husband enters and puts last piece in..."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."