Sleuthing Sleuth Gifts

Business man with magnifying glass

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

Joan Hickson

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

'You've been killing files again.'

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

"Grammar-police, sir, we have some questions about your online posts and the inappropriate use of apostrophes."

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

Optician and the PI.

"Check this wall for fingerprints."

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

Man reading a book in the library. Notices a man next to him reading all book about spying.

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

'This assignment calls for a chicken.'

"The butler did it!"

"It's got my current Wordle winning streak on it."

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

'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...'

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

The Banana Crime

Conflicting Reports

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

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

Sherlock Holmes.

Auditing

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!"

Anti-Vaxxers aren't stupid. They just need to be convinced!

"I think it was done with mirrors."

Detective follows footprints leading to a pair of shoes.

Subliminal messages!

"I won't be needed a new laptop as stated in my email. I've found one on top of my Mum's wardrobe."

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