Noir Comics Mugs

"But my wife and I went for a nice ride only yesterday."

hard-boiled egg...

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

The Philip Marlow family

"We need rain."

"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

"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."

'Business was slow, slower than a fat tortoise with a limp. The phone hadn't rung for so long I thought it must be out of order. The new competition was good, very good. Who was this 'Google' guy?'

Gangster's To-Do List

Robert Mitchum

"Marlowe filled the crooked gumshoe full of lead. He watched the smoke from his .38 coil in the air as he… mommy’s behind me, isn’t she?"

Diary of a DNA Cop

'That isn't true Mrs. Jones, I can find my ass with both hands. And if you want me to prove it, it'll be $150.00 a day, plus expenses.'

"Who, Big Sal? Sure, we were in cahoots years ago, but we fell out of cahoots."

"See you there at seven. And the dress code is business noir."

"Now, see here, I've been wronged! Some no-good do-nothing rat pack got me sick, and I gotta know who!"

'Don Francesco, scusi... But while we were burying Luigi, some joggers ran into us... So we had to bury five corpses altogether...'

"Damn it, Flopsy, you've cost me another bust."

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.

Dashiell Hammett

The shadow

SnowmanBig City

Moby the Private Dick: 'Ever get the feeling you're being watched.'

"I'm telling ya, it's time to muscle in on this internet thing."

"You talkin' to me?"

"We've got kind of a noir thing happening here, Manny. The girlie cigarette doesn't exactly add."

Dashiell Hammett

'Big Tony said I'll be sleeping with the fishes. I think he's gonna take me to an aquarium!'

'He knew too much!'

"You bring da fish?" "You bring da bread?"

Mafia Passport Photo

'Dat was jus' a warnin', Detective Jones. Get off da Bozo case!'

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

"Well, if you find it more comfortable, just call it 'cat bath'."

Cow Noir