“She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.” — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“A quick butchers shows up Old Bill three-handed, also a particularly nasty female grass–-and if looks were acid baths the two she… — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
“Melissa arrived punctually a few minutes after eight. She was on foot and her attire was an incitement to crime.” — Gianrico Carofiglio Copy Share Image
“Human beings shouldn't have to enter such doors, shouldn't have to stay behind them. No moon ever entered there, no stars, no… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“It was a regular family scene. All we had to do was clean up a few murders and a matter of international… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“She knew how much I needed her. And now she was teasing, playing games. I looked at her and watched her turn… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“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… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“The Chinese went to their knees trying desperately to get their rifles into action, but the Mongols were on them too fast.… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.” — Mickey Wyte Copy Share Image
“You don’t trust money to a junkie. You don’t trust money to anyone with hard needs.” — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Do I have to do everything myself?" The cry was a soul-freezing mixture of rage and torment. "Ain’t there no one to… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He’d have this one guy killing a thousand other guys.… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Bosch had left Nigeria with his infamous Butcher Boys—assorted sizes, shapes and colors, but all killers for a price—when his scheme to… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“Howard got sex-crazy in the winter and probably wanted to send him out on a poontang prowl: Schwab's Drugstore, the extra huts… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The fact that he gave her the creeps just proved she was normal. He had the flat, dead face of an item… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“...they were no more than steaks served up to portly politicians who controlled the personnel departments of the TV stations. (Showgirls in… — Tobias Jones Copy Share Image
“I’m asking about the kid,” Root said. “What does she get out of it?” “My fist in her ear if she asks… — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“Her bosom filled the jacket like a pair of boxing gloves stuck inside it.” — Walter Kaylin Copy Share Image
“The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“I edited that [men's adventure] stuff, I read it all. I went from that to The Saturday Evening Post. The very first… — Mel Shestack Copy Share Image
