Dystopian Story Detective Gifts

Vulcan thought police.

'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?"

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

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

A boy acting suspiciously

"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."

Joan Hickson

The Elliot Ness monster.

A Vase has fallen on a cat's head. Are mice to blame?

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

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

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

The Philip Marlow family

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

Sherlock Holmes Museum: No Hounds.

"That's hardly necessary!"

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

"Homes on Holmes"

'I believe the murderer is in this very room.'

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

Mystery of the Poets

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

"Amazing deduction, Holmes!"

Snow Crime

'I've forgotten the author and title - do you read minds?'

Flag bearers

'I have a bad feeling about this place, Watson... and I smell a rat!'