Sleuthing Gifts

Joan Hickson

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

Detective Honky

"It's a puzzling case, Watson. For all I know, the culprit could be staring me right in the face."

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?'

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

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

Optician and the PI.

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

'This assignment calls for a chicken.'

"The butler did it!"

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

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

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

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

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

Conflicting Reports

Top Secret

Sherlock Holmes.

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

Auditing

Arthur Conan Doyle, MD, observes a passerby who has touch stains on his fingers, paint on his trousers and plaster on his jacket, and quickly deduces the man is a slob.

Reporter at a crime scene.

Reporter #2: plant.

"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."

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

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

Valley of Big Data