Police Story Reader Mugs

"Okay sir, everything seems to be in order; but, if you want to avoid being stopped again, might I suggest that you change your attire?"

'I remember when you used to look for answers using your astute powers of deduction.'

"Evidence suggests she was working on the puzzle, got up to make tea, husband enters and puts last piece in..."

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

"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."

Joan Hickson

The Elliot Ness monster.

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"That's hardly necessary!"

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

Marriage a la Mode - Death of the Earl.

'..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

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

'All right pal, just hand over the nose and nobody gets hurt.'

Mystery of the Poets

'I believe the murderer is in this very room.'

"Homes on Holmes"

"Amazing deduction, Holmes!"

Illustration for 'The Notting Hill Mystery'. (woman pulled out of the river).

Snow Crime

"I'm sorry- when you said 'bad' cop, I assumed you meant incompetent."

Cat points to the dog who injured him, at a police station.

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

'I have a bad feeling about this place, Watson... and I smell a rat!'

"By Ned, you're right, inspector—the body has been moved."

Dog detectives

'I could concentrate on finding your husband better if that creature would stop burping!'