Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She…

“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.”

— Lawrence Block

“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she collects from…

— Derek Raymond

“Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no anything at…

— Cornell Woolrich

“When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.”

— V.T. Davy

“It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international dope smuggling,…

— Walter Mosley

“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn into a…

— Lawrence Block

“What I'm trying to do is save your ass, gorgeous.”

— Massimo Carlotto

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

“The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast. Abusing their…

— Walter Kaylin

“The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.”

— Mickey Wyte

“You don’t trust money to a junkie. You don’t trust money to anyone with hard needs.”

— Walter Kaylin

“I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate…

— Haruki Murakami

“Do I have to do everything myself?" The cry was a soul-freezing mixture of rage and torment. "Ain’t there no one to stop asking…

— Walter Kaylin

“Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He’d have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they…

— Mario Puzo

“Chance is life's only certainty.”

— Mickey Wyte