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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
He called the police and told them I was trying to blackmail him." "Were you?" "Not exactly. Bertha was trying to cut herself a piece of cake, and-" "And what?" I asked. "And the knife slipped," she said.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Case of the Troubled
of the murder and whether he could possibly have been out there at the country club at the time the murder was committed. "There's not a chance. At the time the murder must have been committed, Hedley was in a drugstore having
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
The secretary was a good-looking girl-or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Case of the Sulky Girl
people," he said, "try to put on a poker face when they are in a panic and when they try to put on a poker face they look sulky.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Case of the Angry Mourner
However, as a true scientist, Dr. Ford is utterly indifferent to public praise on the one hand, or public criticism on the other. He only wants to satisfy his own conscience. What people may then say or think is of no concern.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Case of the Lame Canary
pool our information," Dimmick said, "to work out a joint plan of campaign." "Thank you, I don't think I'd care to do that," Mason told him. "I want to be free to represent my client in whatever way seems best as the situation develops." "Can't you see, Mr. Dimmick," Rodney Cuff said impatiently, "he's going to pin the whole thing on Driscoll if he has a"
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Erle Stanley Gardner
Della Street, Perry Mason's confidential secretary, said, "A couple of lovebirds have strayed into the office without an appointment. They insist it's a matter of life and death." "Everything is," Mason said. "If you start with the idea of perpetuating life, you must accept the inevitable corollary of death-but I presume these people aren't interested in my philosophical ideas." "These people,
Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
did you ever hear of a politician who wasn't elected on a platform of economy in office?" "That isn't it," I said. "Oh yes it is, lover. I can remember way back. Even then all politicians were promising economy, and still it wasn't new. They'd always hold up the extravagances of the past administration before the horrified eyes of the voters. They'd pledge greater economy and get elected.-And there's never a case on record, lover, where a politician hasn't spent more than his predecessor in office.
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
Every eight years, the people swallow some politician hook, line, and sinker and make him president. They hold him on the political stomach for about six years. Then they commence to get indigestion because the politicians quit pouring the soda bicarbonate of publicity into their stomachs. At the end of eight years, they vomit him up in order to swallow someone else,
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
We have graft today. A hundred years ago we had graft. We probably have more today than we had a hundred years ago. For three generations now people have been following reformers, fighting all sort of graft.-And what has it brought them, sweetheart? Not a damn thing, except more graft than when they started
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Erle Stanley Gardner _ The Knife Slipped
And then what happens to the reformer, lover? He either has to build up a political machine or else he's defeated at the next election. If he builds up a political machine, he has to do it by distributing gravy to the boys who are on the inside.-Hell, Donald, politicians always have cake. The people pass it to them on silver platters, and when the politicians cut it, they have to cut a piece for each of their friends. Otherwise, the friend becomes an enemy.-
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