Shakespearean Sleuth Gifts

'Edward de Vere? -- give me a break!'

"To torture an insect or not to torture an insect, that is the question."

'Edward de Vere? -- give me a break!'

"We've just got a positive I.D. on the stiff, boss. . . Some bloke called, Yorick."

"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.

"Today, I'll be cherry-picking from Deuteronomy."

"We should start a church where we only read the parts of the bible that are never read in church."

"I see you're back from church. What was cherry-picked for you today?"

"He was furiously reading the Bible before he died." "Looking for loopholes."

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

'Sometimes I wish we'd never told him he was adopted.'

"Well did he?"

Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass.

Experts through the ages.

'I've forgotten the author and title - do you read minds?'

"And remember, people, it's better to light a scandal than to curse the darkness!"

"I'm a brilliant stalker and love photography, so I thought: why not?"

"A conundrum, rather than an outright mess, I think, Mrs Ellis..."

"You want me to explain how there were two doughnuts in the larder and now there is only one? Easy, it was too dark in there to see the second one."

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

Optician and the PI.

"If I don't think it's going to work, will it still work?"

Got suspicious after he asked to see a recent picture and she sent over an oil painting.

"Any truth to the rumor that your book is ghost-written?"

"I think they're beginning to suspect our science is fraudulent."

Tonight's Lecture: Contesting the Will. It's going to be about either inheritance law or who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.

Whodunits

'Edward de Vere? -- give me a break!'

"Sword drills just aren't the same since Bible apps."

"And God said, 'Let there be light.'" "CFL, incandescent or LED?"

'Is there a doctor in the house we can trust?'

"Quit worrying about corroborating your sources - it's not as if anyone's going to take all this literally."

"They stay together for the money."

"Richard has quite an ear for dialogue."