Hidden Book Detective Mugs

The Dorrie Decimal System

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."

'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?!'

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

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

"Well, Mr. Goddam Fancy-Pants Small-Town-Expose hot shot! What makes you think we don't all have lusty, kiss-and-tell memoirs boiling away inside us?"

'My piggy bank charged shaking fees.'

'At a guess I'd say it's one of the lesser Pharoahs.'

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

"I believe this is a case for Sherlock Holmes..."

"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?"

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Locking Up Crime

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

"It's all show-as soon as Marks gone he switches off the football and reads Proust..."

"Any clues?"

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

"I always wondered why they called you detectives, 'gum shoes'."

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

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

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

Mystery and suspense at the library.

'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.'

Join our 'conspiracy theory' of-the-month club - JFK and Princess Di.

Crime

Closing Laugh Mystery Publications

'Put them there because we can't figure why they're successful!'

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

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