“I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“I certainly wish you would have invented a more reasonable story. I felt distinctly like an idiot repeating it." Sam Spade (The… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good,… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Jamie popped a handful of Skittles into his bottle of Grolsch. He took a swig and savoured the tangy sweets shrinking in… — Nasser Hashmi Copy Share Image
When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade. — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. — Lucille Kallen Copy Share Image
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“I brush off my skirt and notice that a small trail of blood runs from a nasty scrape on my knee. I… — Jenn Bennett Copy Share Image
“To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take "the lid off life… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a… — Stephen Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a… — Linda Fairstein Copy Share Image
