Quotes from Jonathan Latimer

From the way her buttocks looked under the black silk dress, I knew she'd be good in bed. The silk was tight and under it the muscles worked slow and easy. I saw weight there, and control, and, brother, those are things I like in a woman.

That gun of yours tickles me where I don't like to be tickled," she said.

Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.

It all came back to something I'd figured out once about the detective business. There were two ways to go along: underground or on top. I never found out which was best. Underground you had the element of surprise on your side, but it was harder to move around. On top you went everywhere, taking cracks at everybody, and everybody taking cracks at you. You had to be tough to play it that way. Well, I was tough.

Blood always excites me.

What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this." I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said. "But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more." "Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.

I was glad to get in that stall. It was a funny feeling, being naked and fighting a man with a gun. I didn't like it. I felt the bullets would hurt more, naked.

Miss Evans was a scornful Max Reinhardt saint... She left the room, her hips provocative and fluid. page 270 Murder In The Madhouse/ by Jonathan Latimer

Miss Evans was a scornful Max Reinhardt saint. ... She left the room, her hips provocative and fluid.