Desapareció - dijo Spade - como desaparece un puño cuando se abre la mano.
You’re like everybody else: some people like you, some people don’t, and some have no feeling about it one way or the other.
Your playmates sent him? I asked, nodding at the dead man. I only talked to him with this, he said, patting the automatic on the bed, but I reckon they did. How did it happen? It happened simple enoug...
We begin well, sir, the fat man purred … I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain...
The hell of it, Miss- Is your name Wonderly or Leblanc?' She blushed and murmured: 'It's really O'Shaughnessy - Brigid O'Shaughnessy
The chief winked at me, an athletic wink in which all his facial muscles took part....
Quinn came over to refill his glass. He looked towards the bedroom door. Where'd you find the little blonde?Used to bounce it on my knee.Which knew? he asked. Could I touch it?
Nora: How do you feel? Nick: Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.
I told Nora: I’m not one to suggest that your charm wouldn’t make any man turn himself inside out for you, but don’t be too sure that guy isn’t kidding us. So it’s come to that, she said. You’re jealo...
Dorothy's coming up. I think she's tight.That's great. I picked up my bathrobe. I was afraid I was going to have to get some sleep.She was bending over looking for her slippers. Don't be such an old f...
This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.
My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
Dorothy wants to talk to you. Don't ask her to eat with us.When Nora returned from the telephone she had a look in her eye. Now what's up? I asked.Nothing. Just 'how are you' and all that.I said: if y...
The life he knew was a clean orderly sane responsible affair. Now a falling beam had shown him that life was fundamentally none of these things. He, the good citizen-husband-father, could be wiped out...
The chief thing, I advised them, is not to let her tire you out. When you catch her in a lie, she admits it and gives you another lie to take its place and, when you catch her in that one, admits it a...