[T]here was nothing that absolutely had to be said, and we said it.
It’s enough to wear a man out, helping to decide what to do with a couple of billion dollars’ worth of other people’s money.
"There is no visible reason for you to be glad you came."
- A hotel manager doesn’t like it if a guest tells him she wants to post a guard outside her door because she expects to be murdered.
- "Evidently the one thing you and Nero can’t stand is for anybody to tell a cop anything."
- Usually they have asked for it one way or another, and anyhow if you can’t stand the sight of a fish flopping on the gaff you shouldn’t go fishing.
- No working detective ever detected less in nine straight hours than I did that Monday.
- [T]here was nothing that absolutely had to be said, and we said it.
- The letters and other papers, a washout. If we fed them to a computer I would expect it to come up with something like SO WHAT or TELL IT TO THE MARINES.
- It’s enough to wear a man out, helping to decide what to do with a couple of billion dollars’ worth of other people’s money.
- "You’ll clown while they’re embalming you."
- "There is no visible reason for you to be glad you came."
- "You might as well tell a man with no legs that you don’t challenge his right to walk."
- They needed to have their noses pushed in, and I considered three or four possible ways of taking a stab at it[...], but none of them was good enough.
—Death of a Doxy
—Three at Wolfe's Door
—And Four to Go
—The Father Hunt
—Death of a Dude