Dusty Book Detective Gifts

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

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

"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."

Rare Books

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

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

The Philip Marlow family

"Your appendix is fine. It's your glossary I'm worried about."

'Looks like the victim was trying to tell us something,'

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

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

"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?"

'Sander's a bit high isn't it?'

Locking Up Crime

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"Any clues?"

Man reading a book in the library. Notices a man next to him reading all book about spying.

"That book is kept downstairs in the Big Secret Important Book Room."

"Where's your section of books that tell you simple things you already know?"

Mystery and suspense at the library.

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

"The DNA does not lie Mrs Miggins...or should I call you Don Escobar Bolivian drugs czar?"

'She said to read between the lines to infer the answer, but it's hard to see in between them because they're so close together.'

Crime

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

Sherlock Holmes is stymied.

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

Oliver Twist - Oliver,with the Pickpocketing Artful Dodger's Mode

'Tch! Look at the dust in here.'

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

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

'Please, tell me your secret. Everyday I'm fatter while you're thinner and thinner.'