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"Who was the moron on the phone?" "Carl Avery," Kate said. "A long-standing client and potential felon." — Jennifer Crusie Manhunting

Fulgoni gave me a look that I interpreted as a warning that I was crossing into a territory that he had deemed off-limits when we had last discussed his testimony. I gave him a look back that said too f***ing bad. I have you under oath. I own you. — Michael Connelly The Gods of...

Pike held out Karen's photograph. "Have you seen this woman?" "No. I am sorry." Every word like that. Without contractions. — Robert Crais L.A. Requiem

I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is tight. — James Ellroy The Black Dahlia

Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of...

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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