Reading Mystery Gifts

'Can you believe it, Watson? Man-eating lesbians right here in Baker Street!'

Washing line with robber outfit and swag bag hanging up to dry.

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

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

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

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

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

"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.

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

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

$1: Family Secrets

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

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

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

Murder in Apartment 6-K

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

"I can never understand these foreign crop circles."

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

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

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

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

"I said slime."

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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

OK! I promise that the questions will be easy!

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