Mystery Fiction Gifts

Sherlock Holmes

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

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Edgar Allen Poe

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

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

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."

"Elementary, my dear Watson- the cartoonist did it."

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

'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

"I said slime."

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

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

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

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

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've got a bad feeling about this."

Murder in Apartment 6-K

"Puss in cement boots"

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

"I can never understand these foreign crop circles."

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

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

"Either we spend millions on new technology to erase each agent's memory following a sensitive assignment, or we just start hiring people over fifty."

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

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

"'A body at rest'? -- Are you writing murder mysteries now, Isaac?"

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

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'