Series Detective Prints

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

'Assuming their porridge was poured at the same time, how could it then be too hot, too cold and just right?'

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

"You can't prove that I broke it! Where's your physical evidence? Fingerprints or a DNA profile?"

Joan Hickson

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

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

The Philip Marlow family

"Is this fiction, non-fiction or historical fiction?"

"We subscribe to five streaming services so why are we never able to see the hot new show everybody is raving about?"

A spy

'So, what's it gonna be? Are we gonna watch a good cop show tonight, or a bad cop show?'

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?"

"Any clues?"

"I found a partial thumbprint. Let's get the heck out of here"

"Of course I got rid of him...in my own way."

'So now you sniff out drugs. That's it, no more TV cop shows.'

Violence on TV.

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

"We've picked up a tail."

Crime

"Hey - didn't I see you on TV last night?"

'I want you to try an alternate cure for your insomnia-start watching daytime television.'

'Yes Sarge - looks like another carbon footprint'

An I.R.S. car stakes out a limo

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

Joke Shop.

"I love my unreliable narrator. You?"