Headline Detective Mugs

"I did it!!! I found the bit of good news in the newspaper!!!!"

"Can't I stay up for the news just this once? I'm on it."

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

'Am I being too suspicious or do you think it's possible that they're crooked?'

'So let me see if I've got it straight. It was a very large squirrel and your husband is a nut.'

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

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

CSI: Mother Goose Unit...'Hmmm...I'm beginning to suspect that perhaps mister Dumpty's demise wasn't simply a tragic accident.'

Barks in code.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'No doubt about it Captain. See these markings? This arrow belongs to Robin Hood!'

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

'Still not ready to talk? Ok dip him again.'

Missing Persons...'I'm not sure when she disappeared - sometime during the football season.'

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

hard-boiled egg...

'You know too much,'

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

"I'll have the Investigator's Special."

"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."

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Watson--I took him walkies!"

"First Lady Lettuce goes missing, then Colonel Crouton followed by Reginald Radish... Great Caesar's Ghost! Someone is making a salad!"

"It's not the first time he'd been warned about wearing a long tie when leaning over the shredder."

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

"Mom, I'm bored. Do you know something I can get hysterical and panicky about?"

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

When Engineers Crack.

Dog barking at everything except a burglar.

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

"May I get an equation in edgewise."

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

'If he could trace the matching sock I've another 25 or 30 to account for.'

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

"Elementary, my dear Quackson."