Literature Detective Gifts

Shakespeare or Bacon or maybe Marlowe.

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"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."

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

'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?!'

'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.'

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

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

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

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

"Homes on Holmes"

The evidence destroyed

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

'I've forgotten the author and title - do you read minds?'

"They've solved the cause of death of Richard III."

Bibliomaniac

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

Mysteries.

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

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

Fiction. Mystery. History.

Man sees book flying in the Mystery section.

Deconstructionist girlfriend

Locking Up Crime

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

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

'Psst, buddy -- Apocrypha!'

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

"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

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

"Any clues?"