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Dashiell Hammett

“Have it your own way,” she said, “but I always thought detectives waited until they had every little detail fixed in—” “And then wonder why the suspect’s had time to get to the farthest country that has no extradition treaty.”

Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
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The Thin Man The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
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