Reading Detective Novels Mugs

'I'm a simple man really beneath the code words and the black ops and the multitude of fake passports.'

'Here's your chance to shine at tomb stoning!'

"Maybe it's always the person you least suspect because you're not a good detective."

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

The Smoking Gun

Reduced to clear.

'Hands up!', 'Where are you going with this?'

'I don't care what is politically correct... hench person just doesn't sound right.'

Sherlock Holmes selling Sherlock Holmes.

Not to be a motion picture. Will remain just a book.

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

'Listen up, Baskerville! This is MacDonald! Those hounds of yours are scaring the E-I-E-I-O out of my animals!'

'I asked Will if he wrote it. He said he wasn't sure.'

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

'It's some more story ideas from Francis Bacon.'

The Philip Marlow family

'Oddly enough you're the third person to buy that today!'

The evidence destroyed

Virginia could tolerate the Woolf whistles no longer

Mysteries.

"I have always depended on the content of strangers."

"It's a 12 inch chess board - the game's a foot."

RIP William Shakespeare: To be or not to be...

Bibliomaniac

The Mousetrap, by Agatha Christie

'Have you got any good 'whodunnits'...?'

"I believe this is a case for Sherlock Holmes..."

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

'It's Yorick all right - I know his DNA well.'

"Any clues?"

Major Bagstock is delighted to have that oppertunity

'This assignment calls for a chicken.'

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

"Hmmm...this'll be a tough one..."