Dorothy asked timidly: Did his wife say anything?She sent her love to you.Nora said: Stop being nasty.
Was she jealous? She was, he said, not yelling now, and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad—altogether damned b...
Men have thought me beautiful and I have played with them. Women are like that. Men have loved me, and doing what I liked with them, I have found men contemptible. And then comes this little fat detec...
Denied.
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
It was his wife we objected to. Her name was Leda, but he called her Tip. She was very small and her hair, eyes, and skin, though naturally of different shades, were all muddy. She seldom sat- she per...
Я не доверяю людям, которые остерегаются пить. Если человек боится напиться, значит, он не доверяет себе («Мальтийский сокол»)
Хорошо говорит тот, кто постоянно в этом практикуется («Мальтийский сокол»)
You'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again
Studsy returned alone. Maybe I'm wrong, he said as he sat down, but I think somebody could do something with that cluck if they took hold of her right.Morelli said: By the throat.Studsy grinned good-n...
What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?
Guess I can put two and two together. Sometimes the answer’s four, I said, and sometimes it’s twenty-two.
The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second you. People lose teeth talking like that. Spade’s voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. If you want to hang ar...
So that's the way you scientific detectives work. My god! for a fat, middle-aged, hard-boiled, pig-headed guy, you've got the vaguest way of doing things I ever heard of.
She laughed. All right, all right. Still want to leave for San Francisco tomorrow?Not unless you're in a hurry. Let's stick around awhile. This excitement has put us behind in our drinking.
That's wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he’s looking out for himself. Don’t we all? I don’t trust a man that says he’s not. And the man that’s telling the truth when he says he’s no...
I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon. (Kasper Gutman)
Gilbert put down the magazine he was looking at and politely said he hoped I was recovering from my injury. I said I was.I've never been hurt, really hurt, he went on, that I can remember. I've tried...
Alice opened the door when I rang. She had on green pyjamas and held a hairbrush in one hand. She looked wearily at Quinn and spoke wearily: Bring it in.I took it in and spread it on a bed. It mumbled...