All Reading For Pleasure Is Entertainment.

Dashiell Hammett Took Murder Out Of Thevenetian Vase And Dropped It Into The Alley.

There Are No Vital And Significant Forms Of Art; There Is Only Art, And Precious Little Of That.

It Is Just Possible That The Tensions In A Novel Of Murder Are The Simplest And Yet Most Complete Pattern Of The Tensions On Which We Live In This Generation.

Organized Crime Is The Dirty Side Of The Sharp Dollar.

Throughout The History Of Commercial Life Nobody Has Ever Quite Liked The Commission Man. His Function Is Too Vague, His Presence Always Seems One Too Many, His Profit Looks Too Easy, And Even When You Admit That He Has A Necessary Function, You Feel That This Function Is, As It Were, A Personification Of Something That In An Ethical Society Would Not Need To Exist. If People Could Deal With One Another Honestly, They Would Not Need Agents.