Literary Mystery Solver Gifts

'Edward de Vere? -- give me a break!'

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

Barks in code.

Secret footage from Roswell, shows an alien and debris from a crashed UFO

hard-boiled egg...

"I think I may have stumbled on something, Walpole."

A boy acting suspiciously

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

'Trust me, there's nobody to rescue that way...'

"The note in the bottle said someone's stranded here, but where is he?"

A Vase has fallen on a cat's head. Are mice to blame?

I sometimes feel spotted, but I never really feel seen.

"You're lucky someone was nice enough to turn it in."

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

Murder in Apartment 6-K

"Unfortunately, there's no cure—there's not even a race for a cure."

'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.'

"My wife is the queen of misheard lyrics! Listen to her singing carefully next time: it's hilarious..."

"This just in: one of us always tells lies; the other always tells the truth. Who's who? Stay tuned."

"You know the stories about putting a pair of socks into the washing machine and getting out just one of them...Jones, it seems that we found the hideaway of the second socks!"

I understand that our cat Magus died. I miss her a lot. But I wish my parents wouldn't tiptoe around it. House of Java.net Cybercafe. You don't have to watch Youtube clips of CSI: Miami to understand that death is a part of life. The thing I don't understand about our cat's death is, who would've killed her and left a mountain of unresolved clues that only a crack forensics team can figure out? Where were you at 8:45 p.m.? The Youtube Generation grows up fast.

"Here...let me call an expert...someone who knows about these things."

'No, you can't use your last wish, to wish for another three wishes!'

Detective and child follow footprints using magnifying glasses.

"According to the map, the treasure should be right behind that door."

Apothecary. Tell us what ails you. We'll concoct a chemical mix to dissolve in water which will fix you. Every problem has solution!

"It's interpret-your-own-test-results day today."

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

"Of course, it may be one of those sting operations!"

"So that's where all the socks ended up!"

'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.'

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

"Odd, since neither of us overfeeds her by even the smallest amount."

'And I love the part when he finds out that it was his brother all along!'