| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fb57e1e | Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys. | hard-boiled men-s-adventure pulp-fiction walter-kaylin | Mario Puzo | |
| 6a0d125 | "My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay." | detective-novels hardboiled men-s-adventure noir-fiction private-investigator romance | ed lynskey |