Hidden Meaning Detectives Gifts

What we talk about when we talk about the weather

'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.'

Can You Spot the Differences?

"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.

Reading my Critics

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

hard-boiled egg...

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.

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

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

'You know too much,'

"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."

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

"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!"

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

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

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

'We subpoenaed all of 'Mr. Big's' electronic messages. They're in morse code.'

When Engineers Crack.

Dog barking at everything except a burglar.

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

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

The Philip Marlow family

"Elementary, my dear Quackson."

"Where were you between 4 and 6?"

"You're either lying or not telling the truth."