“The place smelled male, not the metal-and-soap maleness of a locker room nor the malt-and-sawdust maleness of an old-time corner saloon, but the leather-and-oiled-wood maleness of a city club, as finished and self-consistent as the ash of a fine cigar.… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy. — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“If it pains you to discover that a Nice Man can be a crumbum, Tom, it's life you've got to object to, not Percy… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused,… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“The place smelled male, not the metal-and-soap maleness of a locker room nor the malt-and-sawdust maleness of an old-time corner saloon, but the leather-and-oiled-wood… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“The girl was kind in a special way; when you spoke to her, she seemed to stop thinking of whatever she been thinking and… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“Now, Jehovah, Yahweh, was a member of no Trinity, was represented by no lambs, suffered no little children. He was an almighty vindictive deity.… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“He was startled, but there was that about him which made it impossible to show what he felt, an instant and utter reflex of… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
“Had Walter ever read Bernard Shaw (he had not), he might have been pleased with the line, "When you have learned something, my dear,… — Ellery Queen Copy Share Image
