Mystery Writer Gifts

Inflated Biography

'Looks like the victim was trying to tell us something,'

'One victim, four suspects... It's like in a bloody Agatha-Christie-novel! Dang, I hate that mystery stuff...'

'The flight took off here...Then there's a big question mark over what happened next!'

In Agatha Christie's bathroom.

"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!'

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

"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."

'Mysteries' section of bookshop reveals secret door.

"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'"

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

Murder in Apartment 6-K

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.

"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."

"Elementary, my dear Quackson."

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

"I got those famous last words you wanted"

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

'Who was the murderer? Well Watson, that's the killer question.'

Channelling on the Cheap

'Yes, they were using it to clean up the graffiti!'

The Big Book of Suspicious Crawl Spaces

Acme-5000 Lie Detector

Man browsing books see couple kissing in romance section of book store.

"We need rain."

'It was part way through the initial investigation that detective Walters felt as if he was being watched, but there was no one in the room. No one that is except the cat, who sat contently on the chair and watched him with an almost human repose.'

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

'Believe me, you don't want to know what's in it.'

The lion statues in front of New York City Library are replaced with spies.

"I know. But I think I can change him."

'..It's just that with all your amazing powers of deduction and elimination, Holmes, I'm just a little surprised that the best solution you can come up with for seeing off the hound of the Baskervilles, is to 'chase them across the moors with a hoover. up