Cop Hater Quotes

“Any new corpses today?"
"None yet."
"Pity. I’m getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“Sarcasm is a weapon of the intellectual,”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“The widow of Michael Reardon was a full‐breasted woman in her late thirties. She had dark hair and green eyes, and an Irish nose spattered with a clichéful of freckles. She had a face for merry‐go‐rounds and roller coaster rides, a face that could split in laughter and girlish glee when water was splashed on her at the seashore. She was a girl who could get drunk sniffing the vermouth cork before it was passed over a martini. She was a girl who went to church on Sundays, a girl who’d belonged to the Newman Club when she was younger, a girl who was a virgin two days after Mike”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“But this guy ain’t a killer, take it from me. He don’t even know how to kill time.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“You thought about things like that and they consumed your mind, and then when you needed a clear mind which could react quickly to possible danger, you didn’t have it.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“There is not much you can say to a man’s mother when the man is dead. There is not much you can say at all.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“Well, I keep a few guns.” “How many?” “Six,” Bronckin said. “What?” “Yeah.” “Name them.” “The two .45s. Then there’s a Luger, and a Mauser, and I even got a Tokarev.” “What else?” “Oh, just a .22.” “All in your room?” “Yeah, it’s quite a collection.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“Why?” “I seen this jerk around. He’s a nowhere. A real trombenik, if you dig foreign. He don’t know enough to come in out of an atom bomb attack.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“We can’t let a cop be killed because a cop is a symbol of law and order.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“stood”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“lighted”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“had taken her for his bride. She had good legs, very white, and a good body, and her name was May.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater

“I’m getting so I miss my morning coffee and corpse.”
― Ed McBain, Cop Hater