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Источник: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), chapter 13

Источник: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 6
Контексте: The registration read: Carmen Sternwood, 3765 Alta Brea Crescent, West Hollywood. I went back to my car again and sat and sat. The top dripped on my knees and my stomach burned from the whiskey. No more cars came up the hill. No lights went on in the house before which I was parked. It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

Источник: The Long Goodbye

Источник: The Long Goodbye

Источник: The Big Sleep

Источник: The Long Goodbye

Источник: The Big Sleep

Вариант: When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

opening paragraph, chapter 1
The Big Sleep (1939)
Контексте: It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.

Источник: The Simple Art of Murder

Источник: The Big Sleep

Источник: The Big Sleep (1939), chapter 6

Источник: Farewell, My Lovely

Источник: The Big Sleep

Источник: The Big Sleep