Noir Lover Gifts

'This looks like the work of a surreal killer.'

"I want you to bring him back, in pieces."

Cheesedip City

"Very touching."

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

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

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

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

The Philip Marlow family

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

'Choose, Fenster

"We need rain."

"The bagels are better in New York."

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

'The New... New, Swiss Army Knife.'

"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."

It's a busy mother's day down there! The glucose molecule got his mom a box of sweets, the histamine brought flowers ... A sodium atom got bath salts, and the genes had a family portrait taken. Frank, the neuron didn't get a gift for his mother. No, he didn't but he always sends a nice message!

"Call me!"

Giant gorilla peers at female victim. She says into cellphone: "I can't talk now, he's right here."

"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

Mystery of the Poets

The Wedding of Sally and Joe, as captured on film by the world's first for-profit Satellite-Photography Service, from 23,300 feet

Elusive Shadow.

Barry Unsworth

"It's a novel about interest rates."

I love my cape

Lord Byron

Cosa Nostradamus: "Listen, you mook. I predict if you don't pay the vig to the Don by tonight you'll be at the bottom of the Hudson by morning."

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

"It's my resignation in the form of a graphic novel."

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

Bumper Limos

"Yin and Yankee fan"