"The High Window" Quotes
A private detective investigates a missing rare coin and uncovers a web of deception, murder, and corruption in 1940s Los Angeles.
mystery | 265 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat, and a gun.
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
A good cop is not always a good man.
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
The streets were dark with something more than night.
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
She had eyes like strange sins.
The streets were dark and smelled of something wet.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
