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"I'm very touched, fellows."

"Talk, Wallace - where'd you hide the loot?"

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

The Philip Marlow family

'Mark my word, Walters, this is no ordinary virus.'

"I've been dumping bodies here for years, and it seems to me that the sea level is rising."

'I don't care how you do it...just make it look like an accident.'

"It was Saturday night. The clock on my office wall showed the time to be eleven-forty-five. There are times when a private eye does not necessarily feel like being a private eye. This was one of those times. The elevator door down the hall clanked open with a clank familiar to anyone on the fourth floor who had had an office on the fourth floor for as long as I had had an office on the fourth floor. Footsteps came down the darkened hall and stopped outside my door. They were the footsteps of a

I always forget - Are we supposed to tip?

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

"I'll never understand it. I followed the generally accepted principles of embezzling."

"I've sewn on 2 right hands, and have made you ambidextrous!"

Mafia Family Life: 'I'm sorry dear - but I had to bring some work home!'

'Try to think of this as a learning experience.'

"Damn it—I told them I was too well known for undercover work!"

"Now don't do anything flashy with the money, like pay off all your student loans at once."

"This, Yorik... Do you know him well?"

"Say, Chief, any progress on the pencil case?"

"By Ned, you're right, inspector—the body has been moved."

"We've hit the jackpot! It's Ed Sheeran's songwriting formula."

"Undiagnosed serial killer"

Dog detectives

"I couldn't finish that book either."

"Let's try it again. Hand over your wallet, and this time, don't try anything funny."

The Meeting

'Make it look like an accident.'

"Then I tried the move from business casual to white collar crime."

"Make it look like an accident"

Burglar escapes from tower using Rapunzel's hair.

Arrest of La Tuta

'Have you got any good 'whodunnits'...?'

'Sure we've got a lot of anger. We also got a lot cement.'

Optician and the PI.

Trilby - 'Taffy was allowed to see Gecko'.