“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest
Source: Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett: 39 citations0 J'aime
Dashiell Hammett: Citations en anglais
“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest
Source: Red Harvest
“"How do you feel?"
"Terrible. I must have gone to bed sober."”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man
Nora & Nick
Source: The Thin Man (1929)
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“"You got types?"
"Only you, darling-lanky brunettes with wicked jaws."”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man
Nora & Nick
Source: The Thin Man (1929)
“I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.”
Dashiell Hammett livre Red Harvest
Source: Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man
Source: The Thin Man
“My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Chap. 11, "The Fat Man"
Dialogue between the characters Kasper Gutman (the "fat man") and Sam Spade.
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Contexte: "We begin well, sir," the fat man purred … "I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does. … Well, sir, here's to plain speaking and clear understanding. … You're a close-mouthed man?"
Spade shook his head. "I like to talk."
"Better and better!" the fat man exclaimed. "I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice."
“The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Spade
Source: The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Source: The Maltese Falcon
“Emotions are useless during business hours.”
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories
"The Cure" (unpublished story, first printed in The Hunter and Other Stories in 2013)
Short Stories
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
"Zigzags of Treachery" (published in Black Mask, 1 March 1924)
Short Stories
Dashiell Hammett livre The Thin Man
Nick Charles
The Thin Man (1929)
"The Assistant Murderer" (published in Black Mask, February 1926)
Short Stories
“"You’re a damn good man, sister," he said and went out.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Spade
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
"The Second-Story Angel" (published in Black Mask, 15 November 1923)
Short Stories
“Our conversations have not been such that I am anxious to continue them in private.”
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Cairo
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
Bridgid
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
“But where knowledge of trickery is evenly distributed, honesty not infrequently prevails.”
"Nightmare Town" (Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924)
Short Stories
Dashiell Hammett livre The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon (1930)
