Dusty Book Detective Pillows

Woman blowing dust off book 'Desert Romance'

Rare Books

"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."

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

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

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

The Philip Marlow family

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

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

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

Fiction. Mystery. History.

"Hmmm... what would Scooby Doo?"

'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?'

Locking Up Crime

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

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"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?"

"Any clues?"

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

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

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

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

Mystery and suspense at the library.

Where were you on the night of December 24th between 10pm and 5am

"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

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

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

Sherlock Holmes is stymied.

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

'Tch! Look at the dust in here.'

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

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