Dashiell Hammett

“The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man

“Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.”
― Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest

“He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde Satan.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon