Shakespearean Sleuth Mugs

'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."

"Well did he?"

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

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!"

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

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

Optician and the PI.

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

"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."

"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?"

Whodunits

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

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

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

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

'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."

"Richard has quite an ear for dialogue."

I don't trust that guy.

Basil Rathbone Caricature

'Oh dear. My husband looks suspicious.'