Wiley’s behavior had lately become so odd that younger reporters who once sought his counsel were now fearful of his ravings, and they avoided him.
Wild chickens were roaming all over the streets.'Your pal ought to feel right at home,' Merry said.'You kidding? He hates the damn things. Says they're filthy and crawling with lice.''Chickens get lic...
Why didn't you just ring the doorbell?' Stoat said. 'Why break into the house, and why'd you bust the shower door?''To put you in the proper frame of mind,' the man replied. 'Also, I was in the mood f...
Well, apparently, I'm trying to fix the entire human race, one flaming asshole at a time.
Up until a few years ago, I'd never had any doubts about newspaper work, never thought I'd made the wrong choice. I went into the business not because I was looking to get beat up or training to be a...
To sum up: Figure out what you're good at, and get better at it. Along the way, don't waste your time on people whose decency isn't apparent when you first meet for a cup of coffee. Be an astute judge...
The man called Tool lived in a trailer outside of LaBelle, not far from Lake Okeechobee. The trailer had come with a half-acre parcel upon which the previous owner had cultivated tomatoes, a crop desp...
The deceased was a well-known scumbucket and they don’t usually have the decency to kill themselves. Usually someone else does the honor.
Stranahan hadn’t wanted to give up his job, but it had been discreetly explained that for political reasons the state attorney could not keep on staff an investigator (even a productive one) who had k...
Not my circus, not my monkey. Yancy
Nope. He lives over in Boca Raton. Oh fuck, Red. I know, it’s hor’ble. That’s how come the five hundred a day.
Nobody said he was Alvin Einstein.
Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck.
His face appeared to have been massaged with an industrial cheese grater and then retouched with a glue gun.
He considered telling her about his years as a big-time smuggler, but he doubted it would improve his odds of getting laid. Once upon a time, sure, absolutely—but hers was a generation that grew up on...
For now, there's nothing to do but strap on an attitude and act like I'm having a ball.
Erin thought, ludicrously, of how disappointed her mother would be. When one's only daughter is hacked to death wearing a sequined bra top and a G-string--well, there's really no way to explain it to...
Erin said, 'I'll ask you what you've been dying to ask me: how in the world can you do it?''Do what?''Your job. Dead bodies, day after day. I couldn't take it.'The detective said, 'hey, it's a growth...
Confrontation,' he declared, 'is the essence of nature!'He shook his silvery braid loose and let his hair stream out behind him.'Confrontation is the rhythm of life,' he went on. 'In nature violence i...
Cab Mulcahy was a patient man, especially for a managing editor. He had been in newspapers his entire adult life and almost nothing could provoke him. Whenever the worst kind of madness gripped the ne...