Literary Detective Gifts

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

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

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

"Word around school is you've been attributing Shakespeare's works to Edward de Vere."

Talking Books: "Stop thief...!"

'Oddly enough you're the third person to buy that today!'

'Turns out it was J K Rowling, in the drawing room, with a laptop.'

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that oppertunity

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Dashiell Hammett

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

"Do you have a book on famous kidnappings?"

"I did a book report, but then the publisher pulled the book because the author was a plagiarist."

"I'm confused now. Was Shakespeare somebody else or was somebody else Shakespeare?"

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

CSI: Shakespeare.

Hey, Bard, I'm the one who wrote all those plays you've been taking credit for, chimpanzee #158,634,765,234,897,555, 345,876,999, ...

'Have you got any good 'whodunnits'...?'

The evidence destroyed

"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?"

"It's a 12 inch chess board - the game's a foot."

"I have always depended on the content of strangers."

Good Book - Bad Book

Bibliomaniac

Secretary checks filing system in office for client number 007

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

"At least see who the author is."

Mysteries.

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?!'

The Philip Marlow family

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

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