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"No problem, sweetheart; danger is my business."

"I'm sorry, Inspector Lestrade, but for reasons which I confess are sentimental, I feel I must, just this once, decline my services to Scotland Yard."

Motive Meets Opportunity: Dangerous Liaisons.

"We've picked up a tail."

Everything is on tape!

Anyone who witnessed the robbery that occurred here at aprox. 11.30 pm last Friday - you didn't see nothing, right?

"Why Sergeant O'Brien! You startled me."

"Dead birds don't tweet, Joey."

'Who, me?'

'What - the thing you bought from me last month has been stolen? Wow! There are some really stupid guys out there, eh?!'

Sherlock Holmes, CPA: 'Incredible deductions, Mr Holmes! You've saved the Watson family big money!'

"Okay all of you stay right where you are, the murderer may still be near."

"Your deductions, Mr Holmes, aren't brilliant! They're stupid!"

"You're not leaving until we know everything."

"Oh, dear, I just set the table for two!"

"I'm a lapsed good cop."

"Did you remember to bring my gardening gloves?"

"The mortgage payments on our new hideout should be somewhat alleviated by our upcoming schedule of bank robberies."

Edgar Allen Poe

The Dorrie Decimal System

"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.

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

Murder in Apartment 6-K

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."

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

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

"Elementary, my dear Quackson."

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

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

"OK, we may not have ways of making you talk, but we do have ways of making your leg twitch uncontrollably."

"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.'

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