There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
Raymond ChandlerTags: detective hard-boiled santa-anas
From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.
Raymond ChandlerTags: hard-boiled
He was a guy who talked with commas, like a heavy novel. Over the phone anyway.
Raymond ChandlerTags: hard-boiled noir
I thought about the screws and their happiness. Maybe they were glad to be free of the eggbeater, to be independent screws, to luxuriate on white trays. It did feel good to see them happy.
Haruki MurakamiTags: world wonderland end hard-boiled
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
Haruki MurakamiTags: world wonderland end hard-boiled
...the sun rose each morning to stare into my face with the blank but touching gaze of a lovely retarded child.
James CrumleyTags: hard-boiled
The body lay outside an abandoned, boarded-up theater. The theater had started as a first-run movie house, many years back when the neighborhood had still been fashionable. As the neighborhood began rotting, the theater began showing second-run films, and then old movies, and finally foreign-language films.
Ed McBainTags: film hard-boiled cinema
Chance is life's only certainty.
Mickey WyteTags: mystery new-york-city hard-boiled
At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.
Dana StabenowTags: mystery hard-boiled alaska mystery-series
The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.
Mickey WyteTags: new-york-city hard-boiled booze mystery-novels
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