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"What did I tell you guys about writing your names in da cement?"

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

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

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

Mystery of the Poets

"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."

Elusive Shadow.

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."

Peter Lorre caricature

Never use a cookbook written by a mystery book author. You never know how things will turn out!

"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?"

'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.'

I'd rather be drinking Hurricanes in New Orleans

'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!"

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

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

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

"Gee—it's just like in the movies!"

Dashiell Hammett

It was official. She was desperate.

The shadow

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

Raymond Chandler, the money-grubbing years.

SnowmanBig City

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

The Climax - J'ai baise ta Bouche

"Gentlemen, our troubles are over, this is Tony 'The Torch' Barbella"

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

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

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

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

Torontino Blessing - "Ha! Fucking! Ha!"