Tony Dunbar > Quotes

“Tubby had taken a little time off. He had picked up some money from the Sandy Shandell case, and his current clients had no pressing problems that couldn’t be solved later, so he decided to treat himself. First he talked Raisin Partlow into driving down to Florida for a couple of weeks. Tubby rented a Lincoln Town Car with a built-in CD player, stuffed the trunk full of fishing tackle and firearms, and put an Igloo full of beer, bourbon, and orange juice in the backseat. They were on their way on the afternoon of a sunny day.”
― Tony Dunbar, City of Beads

“chickened out. They had had a big argument. Marguerite’s lips turned down in a pout when she thought”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“Cletus Busters, the custodian, trudged in, tugging behind him his cart full of brooms and mops and the bags of trash he had collected as he made his way from room to room. He parked the cart by the door and, with an air of innocence, wandered around the lab without any apparent objective in mind. “Hello, little rat,” he whispered, brushing the front of one of the metal cages with his fingers.”
― Tony Dunbar, Trick Question

“Right.”
― Tony Dunbar, Crooked Man

“Singh Phi Lo was counting out his dough in the back office. His girls, Binh Ho and Oyster Lady, finished their drinks and smokes at the bar, freshened their perfume, and prepared to split.”
― Tony Dunbar, Crime Czar

“lagniappe.”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“drivers were still in some of them, faithfully”
― Tony Dunbar, Tubbypalooza: Nine Hard-Boiled Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries

“the hell out of my office. Like I’m gonna mess up my friendly relations with Bin Minny ‘cause this little girl, who has an asshole for a brother, can’t get along. She leaves like she don’t understand how”
― Tony Dunbar, Crooked Man

“You’ll have to fish or cut bait. That’s all there is to it. Let’s pretend”
― Tony Dunbar, Crime Czar

“Later on, Daisy let him take a shower, because he had been nice and because she had kind of enjoyed it. Then he was gone. He said he was going to show up in the morning and take her out for breakfast, but she blew him off. Another weirdo in her life, she didn’t need. He was probably just bullshitting anyway. Daisy cleaned herself up, mailed herself a kiss in the mirror, and hit the streets.”
― Tony Dunbar, Crime Czar

“Sazerac,”
― Tony Dunbar, Crooked Man

“Shortly, some pipeline worker or shipfitter would slow down.”
― Tony Dunbar, Crime Czar

“They got a nice peanut butter pie, too,” Tubby suggested. The”
― Tony Dunbar, Trick Question

“You’re a slick son of a bitch, I’ll hand”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“across a smiling moon, and”
― Tony Dunbar, Tubby Dubonnet Mysteries Vol 5-6

“The red glow from the stoplight wrapped around Daisy like a bloody veil. She leaned against the crooked bus-stop sign on Airline Highway, fighting the craving for a cigarette. Crimson nighttime mist swirled about her face. It was warm, almost midnight.”
― Tony Dunbar, Crime Czar

“through. The eastern part of the city all the way to The Rigolets was bathed in a soft golden sunlight, almost like a beach at sunset. To the west, however, there was a wicked billowing black mass of clouds, an advancing stampede that blotted out both sky and earth. A seabird’s view of startling weather patterns was one of the major perks of this office: this sky looked not only scenic but particularly menacing. He could imagine the shock waves it was literally sending to all those boat captains out on the Lake trying to get back to the harbor, not to mention the fear in the hearts of all of the Carnival krewe captains who were trying to get their parades lined up and rolling. “Well, better to rain on Lundi Gras than Mardi Gras,” he thought. He heard noises in his outer office and stuck his head out to see if maybe he had a paying client after all. A short round lady with a distressed look was”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“They bought boiled peanuts from every vendor they spied alongside the road and had important theological discussions as the miles slipped away.”
― Tony Dunbar, City of Beads

“Tubby flipped through the magazines stacked on”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“Dan”
― Tony Dunbar, Shelter From The Storm

“Red number eighty-two!” the master of the game proclaimed, unleashing a chorus of groans and threats upon the bird’s life, but the proof was unmistakably there.”
― Tony Dunbar, Lucky Man