Noir Aficionado Gifts

Jim and Betty Noir could turn a simple trip to the post office into gripping melodrama.

"Me? I'm just one of those shadowy figures who inhabit the mysterious twilight world where the medical and legal professions meet."

'So, uh, how much is it to store a self?'

Elusive Shadow.

'Yup, one of the many disadvantages of living in a land locked city.'

'Hi, Honey, I'm homicide...'

'This is the worst film noir I've ever seen.'

Raymond Chandler

"Lose the tie, Vinnie—we ain't going legit after all."

"We've been framed."

'The least you can say is thank you for checking the tides.'

I see you share my hatred for hamsters..

'I hope you don't mind sleeping with the fishes, Mister Scarponi?'

'This is your lucky day. The cement guys are on strike.'

'Don't worry, boss. He's been taken care of.'

"My book club is doing some really good noir, though I forget if it's pinot or grenache."

"All right, so it didn't work out so well in Hollywood―you're still the best damn cop on the force!"

"Gee—it's just like in the movies!"

"Ask the gumshoe. He'll tell ya the saucer was empty when I got there. Go on, gimme a purr detector test. I got all night."

"The usual, Al. Just sharpen the nose and hone the chin."

"Were our business legitimate, gentlemen, this would be considered legal."

"I'm reassigning the murder case to the Scandinavian police. They'll make sure it gets the withdrawn bleakness it deserves."

"I never leave a witness who might describe me to police as being short."

"I hope that what you're reading is relevant to the business at hand."

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

Back to school.

"I've got a bad feeling about this."

Jane Goodall's study of primates in the land of oz didn't go as well as her previous projects.

Junk art/ food/ tv/ music/ amusements/ novels/ views/ life.

'I'll blurb you if you'll blurb me.'

"Is Pinot Noir where you want to be?"

The Philip Marlow family

Treasure Island Book.

"We need rain."

Fyodor Dostoevsky