Festive Crime Solver Prints

"I'm sorry, Inspector Lestrade, but for reasons which I confess are sentimental, I feel I must, just this once, decline my services to Scotland Yard."

'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..."

Gracie goes to get cookies for Santa, but Papi has eaten them all.

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

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

"The DNA sample from the mink fibres found in the suspect's car matched the DNA sample from the mink coat found at the scene of the crime, so I'm thinking, maybe these minks were twins?"

'The police is looking for a teenager who reads books... I bet they'll never solve this case!'

'Apparently my DNA had guilt written all over it.'

"We understand you wish to report a crime Madam? I'm Inspector La Garde and this is my able assistant Defective Constable Wallis."

Cop Shop: Bulk, dried blood, shaved hair, ground teeth, assorted body parts and bone fragments.

"My client was across town at the time of the murder, as a quick sniff of Exhibit A will demonstrate."

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

Dog detectives

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

'Where my balls go?'

Phone Hacking Explained - 50 p.

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

'Ragrding our cash-flow problewm, it's agreed then...Sims enters the bank at 10am, Riggs will follow, and Yates drives the getaway car...'

'Looks like the latest crime figures have been stolen.'

'We suspect death by Sunday supplement.'

'We've got a new DNA database...'

STRIP Hambone: Computer an accessory to computer fraud

Locking Up Crime

"Our forensic scientist quit, so our computer guy has stepped in for now."

'Vice squad - you're busted.'

CSI Fridays

"Well well, Mr. Chamberlain. It seems you've discovered my secret."

Sistine murder

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

'This is a simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.'

'Now, Mrs Althorpe, if you think you see the man who assaulted you, we just want you to touch him on the shoulder.' (Mrs Althorpe beats a man up and then says she doesn't recognise any of them)

'In that case we will ALL wait for the results of the lab assistant's DNA test on the chalk.'