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A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes story )
A Scandal in Bohemia ( Sherlock Holmes story )
A Study in Scarlet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Accessory after the fact
Against the law
America's most wanted
An abortive
attempt
Assault with a deadly weapon
Attack
is the best form of defence
Attack
of the Clones ( George Lucas movie in the Star Wars series )
Back the
wrong
horse
Barking up the
wrong
tree
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Billy The Kid ( Nickname of Henry McCarty aka William Bonney )
Bird dog
Black on black
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Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
Book him
Born on the
wrong
side of the blanket
Born on the
wrong
side of the tracks
Breach of the peace
Breaking and entering
Bribery and corruption
By hook or by
crook
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Canteen culture ( boorish behaviour by rank and file
police
or soldiers )
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Case the joint
Catch a case
Citizen enterprise
Citizen's
arrest
Complex
sentence
( a
sentence
containing subordinate clauses )
Costa Del Crime
Cradle
robber
Crime And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
Crime Dog ( Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff )
Crime against nature
Crime doesn't pay
Crime of passion
Crimes
And Misdemeanours ( Woody Allen movie )
Criminal
stupidity
Denial of service
attack
Don't Stand So Close To Me (
Police
song )
Drummed out of the
Mafia
for cruelty
Every Breath You Take ( The
Police
song )
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (
Police
song )
Evil genius
Fall foul of the law
Film at eleven
From the
wrong
side of the tracks
Get hold of the
wrong
end of the stick
Get off on the
wrong
foot
Get out of
jail
free
Get out of
jail
free card ( a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame )
Get out of the
wrong
side of the bed
Go directly to jail, do not pass go
Go down the
wrong
way
Go straight
Go
wrong
Grievous bodily harm
Had up
Heart
attack
on a plate
Heart
attack
waiting to happen
Helping the
police
with their enquiries
His Last Bow ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Hold up
How
wrong
can you be?
I
arrest
you in the name of the law
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti ( The Silence of the Lambs )
I fought the law and the law won
I'm not a
crook
If anything can go wrong, it will
If this is
wrong
I don't want to be right
If you can't do the time, don't do the crime
In the
wrong
Indecent exposure
Innocent until proven guilty
Inside job
It takes a
thief
to catch a
thief
It went down the
wrong
way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone
wrong
)
Jack the Ripper ( Nickname of Victorian murderer )
Jail
bait
Jail
bird
Jonnies out of
jail
Jump to the
wrong
conclusion
Known to the
police
Laugh on the
wrong
side of your face
Law and order
Let the punishment fit the crime
Like a
thief
in the night
Line of
attack
Marriage isn't a word it's a
sentence
Message in A Bottle (
Police
song )
Mug's game
My country right or
wrong
Nose for crime
Not that there's anything
wrong
with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
On the
wrong
foot
On the
wrong
side of the tracks
Once a thief, always a
thief
Outside the law
Partners in crime
Pass
sentence
Police
state
Procrastination is the
thief
of time
Put a foot
wrong
Resisting
arrest
Revenge mission ( an
attempt
to seek active retribution )
Revenge sex ( sex with the intention of infecting a partner with Aids )
Rich man poor man beggerman
thief
Robber
barons
Rub up the
wrong
way
Serious as a heart
attack
Set a
thief
to catch a
thief
Silver Blaze ( Sherlock Holmes story )
Snack
attack
Son of Sam ( Nickname of David Berkowitz )
Stranger danger
Take a bite out of crime
Take a bite out of crime! ( National Crime Prevention Council advertising slogan )
Tea leaf ( Cockney rhyming slang for
thief
)
That frosty
mug
sensation ( A&W Root Beer advertising slogan )
The Acid-bath Killer ( Nickname of John Haigh )
The Adventure of Black Peter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Cardboard Box ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Creeping Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Crooked Man ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Dancing Men ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Dying Detective ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Empty House ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Lion's Mane ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Naval Treaty ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Norwood Builder ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Priory School ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Red Circle ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Red-Headed League ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Reigate Squire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Resident Patient ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Retired Colourman ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Second Stain ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Six Napoleons ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Speckled Band ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Gables ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Three Students ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventure of the Yellow Face ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Boscombe Valley Mystery ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Boston Strangler ( Nickname of Albert DeSalvo )
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Clown Killer ( Nickname of John Gacy )
The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Final Problem ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Five Orange Pips ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Flying Squad ( Nickname of the Specialist Crime Directorate, New Scotland Yard )
The Hillside Strangler ( Nickname of Alessio and Angelo )
The Hound of the Baskervilles ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Man with the Twisted Lip ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Mirror Cracked From Side To Side ( Agatha Christie book title )
The Moors Murderers ( Nickname of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley )
The Napoleon of Crime ( Nickname of Professor Moriarty )
The Problem of Thor Bridge ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Return of Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the crime fighting vigilante )
The Sign of the Four ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The
Thief
( Nickname of Sedale Threatt )
The
Thief
of Bad Gags ( Nickname of comedian Milton Berle )
The Valley of Fear ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Zodiac Killer ( Nickname of Seda Heriberto )
The best defence is a good
offence
The butler did it
The perfect crime
The right place at the
wrong
time
Thought
police
Three strikes and you are out
Throw a beanball ( A baseball expression meaning to
attack
an opponent by aiming at their head )
Tooled up
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime ( Tony Blair political slogan )
Trial
and error
Trial
and tribulation
Trial
by television
Ugly
mug
Voter
fraud
Walking On The Moon ( The
Police
song )
War
criminal
( someone who has flouted the Geneva Convention )
We've got you covered
What's
wrong
with this picture?
Whipping boy
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him
Wrong
)
Wrong
Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong
side of the blanket
Wrong
side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R
You aren't obliged to say anything
Zero tolerance