Michael Henderson

“I got up on my feet and went over to the bowl in the corner and threw cold water on my face. After a little wile I felt a little better, but very little. 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 put them on and went out of the room.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

“Every time he spoke, in fact, he had the appearance of thinly addressing an audience, raising and lowering his head as though from notes, and speaking in a penetrating singsong towards a point over his listeners' heads. You would have diagnosed a Physics B.Sc. with Socialist platform tendencies, and you would have been right.”
― John Dickson Carr, The Three Coffins

“All there was to it, he was in a panic. He was scared stiff that any minute a fact might come bouncing in that would force him to send me down to Cramer bearing gifts, and there was practically nothing on earth he wouldn't rather do, even eating ice cream with cantaloupe or horseradish on oysters.”
― Rex Stout, If Death Ever Slept

“Is she in trouble?" The question was quick and aggressive. Helene and Jake Justus were two of Joe the Angel's favorite people.
"Of course not!"
Malone's tone indicated the question was ridiculous; that trouble wouldn't dare to even come into Helene's neighborhood. Which wasn't true. The dark bird of chaos spent most of its leisure time roosting on the Justus balcony, but Joe did not make an issue of this.”
― Craig Rice, But the Doctor Died