He was one of those men who can both get money and keep it. He must have been a millionaire. He kept accounts. He introduced a post-office atmosphere into his shady dealings. Not a stamp, not a pen-nib escaped him, and he would stay up half the night to figure out what had happened to a mislaid farthing. You cannot conceive the caution and the meanness of that man! He would have made a Syrian pawn-broker appear like Diamond Jim Brady. But he had brains, and also nerve. At the same time, he was as smooth as glycerine. He looked like an octopus — he had a dirtyish pallor, no shape, evil eyes, and a beak. In shaking hands with him, you felt that six or seven other hands were investigating your pockets while a dozen eyes watched you. He was feared. He made money out of everything. But he was still unknown to the police.
Gerald KershTag: crime-fiction pulp-fiction
I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?”
“You never went to school.”
Conversation between Bruno Hanson and George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.
Tag: crime-fiction scandinavian-mysteries
The Professor is coming...
M.K. HopkinsTag: wealth adventure humour fiction action mystery drama suspense thriller crime-fiction erotica literary-fiction jekyll-and-hyde graphic-sex
His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
("Introduction")
Tag: noir crime-fiction cornell-woolrich noir-fiction
All we can do about this nightmare we live in is to create, if we are very lucky, a few islands of love and trust to sustain us and help us forget. But love dies while the lovers go on living, and Woolrich excels at making us watch while relationships corrode. He knew the horrors that both love and lovelessness can breed, yet he created very few irredeemably evil characters; for with whoever loves or needs love, Woolrich identifies, all of that person's dark side notwithstanding.
("Introduction")
Tag: life noir crime-fiction cornell-woolrich noir-fiction
When he shows I’ll say: ‘Good day, a bouquet for Mr. Hovgaard.’ Then you shoot him. Understood?”
Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’
The Informer
Tag: crime-fiction world-war-2
My name’s Alis K. From now on you will be Willy. Come on, let’s push the bicycles for a bit.”
Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’
The Informer
Tag: crime-fiction world-war-2
Sneaking out at night. You think you’re so clever, but you’re not. Either you’re a saboteur, Johannes, or you’ve got a mistress.”
The Reverend’s wife, Grete
The Informer
Tag: crime-fiction world-war-2
I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut.
Steen LangstrupTag: world-war-ii crime-fiction scandinavian-mysteries
You’ll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly.”
Ingrid aka ‘Alis K’
The Informer
Tag: crime-fiction world-war-2 scandinavian-mysteries
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