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405 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
A young woman came in crying angrily, "Wally, that old fool has--" She broke off with a hand to her breast when she saw Spade.I'll have to remember that line the next time I make a whirlwind entrance.
Spade and Binnett had risen together. Binnett said suavely, "Joyce, this is Mr. Ames. My sister-in-law, Joyce Court."
Spade bowed.
Joyce Court uttered a short, embarrassed laugh and said: "Please excuse my whirlwind entrance."
I started to say something and then stopped, and I had a goofy idea that I would like to kiss him or something and then he was climbing through the ropes and the gong rang.An affected thing (shall we say) is off-and-running in the first-person narrative of 'A Man Named Thin':
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Loney was not looking sick anymore. I could tell he was excited because his face was set hard and still. I like to remember him that way, he was awful good-looking.
Papa was, though I may be deemed an undutiful son or saying it, in an abominable mood. His chin protruded across the desk at me in a fashion that almost justified the epithet of brutal which had once been applied to it by an unfriendly journalist; and his mustache seemed to bristle with choler of its own, though this was merely the impression I received. It would be preposterous to assume actual change in the mustache which, whatever Papa's humor, was always somewhat irregularly salient."... the epithet of brutal"?! Hmm... seems more gay than just... elite. My fedora's off to ya, Dash!