The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™ Quotes

“If we let this fellow stay in that position much longer, rigor mortis will harden him like a pretzel and they’ll have to press him between the pages of a dictionary to straighten him out for the stretcher.”
― Joseph J. Millard, The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™: 25 Modern and Classic Mysteries

“We rocked and jounced like an idiot on a pogo stick, or a mountain goat leaping across a drainage gulley, and finally got some paving under us again.”
― Joseph J. Millard, The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™: 25 Modern and Classic Mysteries

“McGee made a gagging sound deep in his throat and scrubbed the bloody hand against his wet raincoat. His eyes were muddy, his bony angular face tight and shiny from the rain and the tension of taut nerves and muscles. Rain drummed steadily on the car’s metal roof and the windshield wipers squeaked monotonously, louder and more nerve-wracking than the endless sucking whine of the tires on the wet pavement. But louder than all these sounds was the mournful, sobbing wail of squad cars ripping through the night, converging on the neighborhood McGee was desperately fleeing.”
― Joseph J. Millard, The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™: 25 Modern and Classic Mysteries

“I had to get hold of a Doc and some bandages. Maybe I needed a splint. I wasn’t sure, I went away from there. To hell with the screaming woman. I’d save her after I saved myself.”
― Joseph J. Millard, The Noir Mystery MEGAPACK ™: 25 Modern and Classic Mysteries