Hi, folks. I made this list for a poetry group to which I
belong (nevermind why, I just did). I thought that some
rara-avians might have some other favorites that didn't make
my list.
G.
Top Five Last Lines / Passages from Hard-Boiled Detective
Novels:
5. She had said it to her killers before she died. Her name
was Mae Robicheaux. And I was her son.
(James Lee Burke, HEAVEN'S PRISONERS, 1988)
4. And then the goddamnedest thing happened. I started to
cry. (Lawrence Block, EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE, 1982)
3. It would be one kind of penance. And there are never
enough kinds. Not for him. Not for me. And certainly not for
you, my friend. (John D. MacDonald, A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING,
1964)
2. I might just as well have saved the labor and sweat I had
put into trying to make my reports harmless. They didn't fool
the Old Man. He gave me merry hell. (Dashiell Hammett, RED
HARVEST, 1929)
1. The Danzig brothers and I were sharing a table and a
bottle inside with Hattie tending bar when Lieutenant Valery
Kozlowski showed up with the walking sputum from the Detroit
Prohibition Squad. (Loren D. Estleman, PEEPER, 1989)
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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