Noir Stories Prints

"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

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."

'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?'

Robert Mitchum

Gangster's To-Do List

"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?"

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

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.'

Noir kitty.

"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.

The shadow

'Well, what did you expect?'

SnowmanBig City

Dashiell Hammett

It was official. She was desperate.

The Climax - J'ai baise ta Bouche

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

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

Dashiell Hammett

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

"You talkin' to me?"

'He knew too much!'

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

"No more last requests."

Mafia Passport Photo

"Film blanc."