Literary Detective Fan Gifts

Hercule Parrot

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

'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.'

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

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

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

The evidence destroyed

Mysteries.

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

Benjamin Bunny re-writes Beatrix Potter

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

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

Bibliomaniac

"I'm sorry- when you said 'bad' cop, I assumed you meant incompetent."

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

Crime Writer's Society.

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

"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?"

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

"Any clues?"

Melted Snow Man behind police cordon

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that oppertunity

Holmes and Watson: Solutions Solutions

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

"We have ways of making you talk."

A detective selling a copy of Sherlock Holmes.

"This is too hard, but I'd recognize him on his own."