Creating a detective story through art.

Here's an interesting project: artist Daniel Moore is creating a detective story through the use of public domain images such as 1920s movie stills.

Emulating Holmes.

Ad for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

The blog of Harvard's Houghton Library features the board game "Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective," part of its Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.

Product of the Day: "Tools of the Consultant Detective" T-shirt.

It's hard to resist this T-shirt by artist David Fernandez Huerta with the Great Detective's "tools of the trade" (sadly, the remarkable dog Toby does not seem to have been included). Fernandez Huerta has stated that he designed it with the exhibition "Oficis Extraordinaris" at the 2013 Valencia Book Fair in mind. The design also is available on some other products.

What's next? A graphic-novel Perry Mason?

Nathaniel Burney provides a lively look at criminal law via a comics format in The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law; he talks about the book here. Sneak a peek at the upcoming follow-up, The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Procedure. These are probably destined as presents for the budding law school student, alongside of Scott Turow's One L. (thanks, Law & Humanities blog)

Product of the Day: Clues T-shirt.

Show your support for the study of mystery/detective fiction with this stylish Clues T-shirt. A portion of the proceeds goes to Bowling Green State University's Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Library to assist the library in buying mystery materials and maintaining its collections (Pat was the founding editor of Clues). The T-shirt and other Clues items are available at Zazzle's Clues store.

Product of the Day: "Guilty/Not Guilty" cufflinks.

The "Guilty/Not Guilty" cufflinks and the police helmet cufflinks. From the UK's Police Specials shop.

US alternatives from Just Cuff Links:
• Guilty/Not Guilty cufflinks
• The San Francisco police inspector cufflinks

Product of the Day: Mysteries & More mousepad.

An appropriate mousepad from the Mysteries & More Bookstore in Nashville, TN.

Product of the Day: Edgar Allan Pooh mousepad.

By Bizarro artist Dan Piraro: The Edgar Allan Pooh mousepad (other products with this artwork also available).

Great Charlie Chan Detective Mystery Game.

Element of Milton Bradley's
Great Charlie Chan
Detective Mystery Game

Beinecke Library's Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities at Yale features the Great Charlie Chan Detective Mystery Game (1937).

Product of the Day: The Warholesque Poe.

The Pop Poe case for your iPhone, courtesy of Out of Print Clothing.

The periodic table of storytelling.

An essential element
in ComputerSherpa's
Periodic Table of
Storytelling

ComputerSherpa's clever and artistic Periodic Table of Storytelling features surefire tropes in building a narrative. Mystery fans will probably appreciate element .45 Tfc (They Fight Crime); element .83 Mus (Dumb Muscle); and subtrope I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin. Prints of the periodic table are available. (Hat tip to Out of Print Clothing)

Product of the day: Police line shower curtain.

The police line shower curtain from Kikkerland.

Product of the day: Book T-shirts.

Out of Print Clothing has a Hound of the Baskervilles T-shirt, along with other book cover shirts such as Fahrenheit 451, Naked Lunch, and Invisible Man.

About the image: Out of Print Clothing's Tales of the Jazz Age T-shirt.

Product of the day.

At left, a magnet from The Onion's online store.