Mystery Novel Enthusiast Gifts

"That's him..all right, only taller, younger, and thinner!"

Richard gets the third degree.

"Well, Mr Baskerville, the only puppy hound I have left is this little guy right here." A legend is born.

"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."

"Well, well, well. Harris was the mole all along!"

"I really like the author's characterizations, and her dialog is witty and well paced. . . the ending threw me off though, I never would have guessed the killer was the stepson.£

I should be a writer when I grow up...

"Now, were those friends of your Gettys or Gottis?"

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

Victor Hugo

Thomas Mann.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Reading my Critics

'To most people, 1984 is just a novel; around here it's our instruction manual.'

The Dorrie Decimal System

Television Readers.

'Look! The new long awaited, highly anticipated but ultimately disappointing novel by that guy you like.'

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

Silence of the Chickens...

The First Draft. . . Moby Duck.

Characters jumping out of a book.

"I try to write a little bit every day."

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

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

Dickens & Tolstoy Walk into a Bar: " . . . so, to make a short story long . . . "

Iris Murdoch

Sign in book shop window: 'Critics agree the book is much better than the movie.'

'Is that where you keep the banned books?'

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

The Department of Mystery - No one really knows who we are or what we do, including us.

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

"Hmm...I can see a best-selling book and a movie deal out of this..."

'Meet the author with her collaborators'

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