Sleuthing Gifts

Joan Hickson

"Let me through... I’m an armchair detective!"

Detective Honky

Man investigating man investigating footprints.

"Evidence suggests she was working on the puzzle, got up to make tea, husband enters and puts last piece in..."

'Come on Jill, they say the water's well good.'

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

Thesaurus Publishing: In a Meeting, Gathering, Conference, Forum, Discussion.

Private detective looking very conspicuous while the suspect is saying 'He hasn't really got the hang of discreet surveillance, has he?'

"We're sure we've got the right numbers... Now we just need to work out what order to put them in!"

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

Optician and the PI.

'I got my grant to study why the word 'COOL' persists generation after generation'

"The butler did it!"

'But Holmes, how did you know what the victim had for his last meal?'

'This assignment calls for a chicken.'

'Let's go over it again: the cat is out cold, and the only clue is a little wet castle...'

"Well Inspector - that little trap you set seems to have worked!"

Top Secret

Conflicting Reports

"This was no accident, Sarge! He was intentionally DROPPED!"

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

Sherlock Holmes.

Auditing

"We haven't been able to pick up his trail. We think he's using invisible ink."

Reporter #2: plant.

Reporter at a crime scene.

"You may not like what I've dug out, but you did ask me to snoop into your husband!"

Detective follows footprints leading to a pair of shoes.

"I think it was done with mirrors."

Valley of Big Data

'The killer should not be hard to find - he has left a trail of inserts.'

'. . . and 14% said they didn't own a TV set, although I could hear it in the background!'

"Just as we suspected, he's running a dummy company"

Crime scene outline on the floor of a grocery store.