Noir Fiction Gifts

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

"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."

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

Dashiell Hammett

"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

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

'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

Uneasy Rider

"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

"Remember - this meeting never happened, we never met, and you never wore that tie with that jacket."

'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.'

Noir kitty.

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

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

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

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

"I have a few questions, Miss Haspel, about your fitness to serve as the director of the C.I.A."

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

It was official. She was desperate.

Detectabull

The shadow

'Well, what did you expect?'

SnowmanBig City

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.

'It's been taken care of.'

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."

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

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