Mystery Novel Gifts

"I'm sick of you reading crime novels!"

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

Edgar Allen Poe

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

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"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."

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

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

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

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

$1: Family Secrets

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

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

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

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

Murder in Apartment 6-K

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

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

"I can never understand these foreign crop circles."

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

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

"I said slime."

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

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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Elementary, my dear Quackson."

OK! I promise that the questions will be easy!

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