Minerals! The invaders had virtually wiped out our entire race for minerals. But then, who were we to complain, when for centuries elements of mankind had wiped out other races and peoples over oil, l...
It would be easy to say that I skipped Chicago for Miami after the war ended because Pete and I were such good pals and I'd had such a great time there on leave. But in truth I decided to stay on in M...
It was such a beautiful sentiment, so pure in its innocence, so uncaring of the vulnerableness. A great love for Sarah swept over me for which, if pressed, I would never have been able to justify. But...
I wondered not for the first time what it was about Spanish churches that gave them a reverence often lacking in others. Was it because those who attended them were usually poor, and more reliant on f...
I wanna show the girls how to use them. In case they get the drop and take away our guns. They probably won't search the girls. Juanita said, I Chihuahua! You want us carry those things? And use them...
I hadn’t seen Krista Wallace for several years and the emotions it stirred when I did set eyes on her again surprised me. We had been a summer fling on the beaches of Ecuador, a brief yet sweet encoun...
I frowned, staring into the eerie blackness along Route 33 truckers always complained about. It is odd how we rarely encounter true darkness. Somewhere, there is always light; a house, a town, headlig...
By firelight he read the book he had gotten on his one trip to New York. It was called The Moonstone, written by someone named Wilkie Collins. The pretty girl behind the counter had recommended it to...
Both of them grinned. Must be a dame. Better than that. Watch out she don’t start walking you by jewelry store windows, said Roy. And make sure she don’t have to attend no funerals anytime soon. I’ll...
As such things have a tendency to do it got out of hand in the worst way, resulting in the rather gruesome death of Maggie Potter — no relation to Harry.
Alan Ladd as Neale Jordan Veronica Lake as Ellen Hillman Mike Mazurki as Paul Fontana Elisha Cook Jr. as Ciro Ricci Gloria Graham as May Martell Frank Lovejoy as Randolph McGraw Hugh Beaumont as Charl...
Vera Lynn was telling me it would be a lovely day tomorrow as my new Packard wended its way along the winding shore road. The cool sea mist blowing in my face felt wonderful, a refreshing reminder tha...
That's the way it is in Miami. There are good guys and bad guys and sometimes the twain do meet.
I was at least four-hundred miles from life of any kind on this particular night when it began to rain. It was one of those summer rains that come down in buckets but pass quickly. I had a full load a...
Finally he turned to me, his eyes shifting from compassion to business in a heartbeat. You didn’t bring me out here for that, you must need something. Who exactly are you, and how are you playing this...
All families were like that, with their private damage they kept among themselves, ghosts they lived with that only other family members knew about.
I was much older now, settled in a little coastal town called Cabrer, which ironically means go away. It hadn’t been spoiled by tourists yet, so maybe the name had some kind of mojo that kept them awa...
I didn't see how it could be anything bad, because that wasn't the way God worked, or at least the way I'd always believed he worked. I had gotten something back today that I'd all but lost, and by th...
Even if we ran into Charlie Chan he’d only smile and give us some proverb.
Depending on whether you were a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty sort it was either very late at night or the wee hours of morning as I cast my line into the aquamarine waters of Cozumel and saw he...