Vintage Detective Reader Mugs

Gen-Next Library

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

Two Generations of Readers

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

"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 believe it was called 'cursive'."

"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.'

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

A new meaning in the Roman

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

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

'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!"

"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?'

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

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

Sherlock Holmes investigating a washing machine.

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

Crime

My aunt astonishes me

The ghost's walk

Gustave Flaubert