That's Mama, divorces a lunatic and marries a gigolo.
Porky Grout, whose yellowness was notorious from Seattle to San Diego, standing rigidly in the path of a charging metal monster, with an inadequate pistol in each hand. She had done that to Porky Grou...
I don’t get away soon I’ll be going blood-simple like the natives.
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)
I found I was repeating myself. It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
You like Nick a lot, don't you, Nora? Dorothy asked.He's an old Greek fool, but I'm used to him.Charles isn't a Greek name.It's Charalambides, I explained. When the old man came over, the mugg that pu...
You always have, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?
Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.
When he awakened again he could stand, and did. He doused his head in cold water and drank four glasses of water. The water made him sick and after that he began to shake with a chill. He went into th...
To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.
She grinned at me. 'You got types?''Only you darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.
But besides I haven’t the time: I’m too busy trying to see that you don’t lose any of the money I married you for. I kissed her.
And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it. - Detective Sam Spade
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...
Samuel Spade’s jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller, v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v mot...
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready.Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit.
He said: I'm going to send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means you'll be out again in twenty years. You're an angel. I'll wait for you. He cleared his throat. If they hang y...
Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts...
We found a table. Nora said: She's pretty.If you like them like that.She grinned at me. You got types?Only you, darling - lanky brunettes with wicked jaws.And how about the red-head you wandered off w...