Vintage Detective Reader Gifts

Mobile Holmes.

Gen-Next Library

'You know bank pens never work. Why didn't you write the holdup note before we left?!'

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

Two Generations of Readers

"I believe it was called 'cursive'."

"First they came for the horoscope and the crossword and I did nothing. Then they came for the cartoonists and there was no-one left to satirise it."

"I know. But I think I can change him."

'I don't like reading on screen, so I'm printing the internet to look at it later.'

"Homes on Holmes"

A vicar is reading 'The Great Begatsby' written by Abraham.

'Bront?saurus.'

'The police is looking for a teenager who reads books... I bet they'll never solve this case!'

Jane Austen

Mr. Stryver at Tellson's Bank

"They've solved the cause of death of Richard III."

'At a guess I'd say it's one of the lesser Pharoahs.'

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

A new meaning in the Roman

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

Books*. *Batteries not included.

'What are you staring at? . . . Please save me from the English majors.'

Diary of a DNA Cop

'My battery is dead. How does it end?'

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

"I always wondered why they called you detectives, 'gum shoes'."

"Books are tricky. You can't text with a text book and you can't call with a phone book!"

Trilby - 'Hast thou found me, o mine enemy?'

'Cause of death is still unknown. We hope to learn more once he's dead'

Sherlock Holmes investigating a washing machine.

Crime

'Oh darling, it is not an ibook, it is only a book.'

My aunt astonishes me

The ghost's walk

Gustave Flaubert