Masked Mystery Gifts

'Who was that masked man?'

'I hate to be so skeptical, but I still think the seance business is a hoax!'

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

Unfinished painting of a monster in a lake sits beside the lake with no painter in sight

"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."

"Can't you do something more creative than messing around with cupboard doors?"

'The world already ended, but the government hushed it up.'

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

$1: Family Secrets

'You've got to cure my sleepwalking, Doc - I keep falling into the moat!'

"I can never understand these foreign crop circles."

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

"My latest sighting turned out to be just another weather balloon."

The mysterious Sherlock Holmes - 'Is he wearing his cap backwards or forwards?'

"I just found a unicorn! Apparently, they just want to be left alone."

"I said slime."

The Shed Mystery: 'Ah! There you are! Ok, that's enough...time to go ho...uh...wait...what the...?'

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

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

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

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.

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

"At some point, there's only so high you can raise the volume before you admit you're never gonna understand what British detectives are saying."

"So besides opera and lurking, what do you do to relax?"

"Wait, am I hear for you or are you here for me?"

OK! I promise that the questions will be easy!

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

"There's something I have to tell you."

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

'Time machine materialises in Westminster Lord Lucan arrested'

Bob woke up in a pile of notes, some scrawled so quickly that no one could decode them. He remembered nothing of the night before, except... yes, a fleeting glimpse of the writer's moon.

He's making a list --- Holmes solves cases quicker when he itemizes deductions.

Cheating Death.

Sphinx Comes Alive

Sergeant Jones gave the assurance that they had an 'assortment' of leads back at the station. . .