Edgar Rice Burroughs

“ I open ’em all—I steam ’em open. What do you expect,” she almost screamed, “from the thing you have made of me? Do you expect honor and self-respect, or any other virtue, in a hype?”
“You get out of here!” he cried. “You get out now—this minute!”
She rose from the bench and came and stood quite close to him. ”

“ Run along and take a shot—it’ll make you feel better.”
“Yes,” she said, “I need one; but don’t get it into your head that I was kidding. I wasn’t. I’d just as lief kill you as not—the only trouble is that killing’s too damned good for you, Wilson!”
She walked toward the bathroom door.
“Oh, by the way,” she said, pausing, “Allen called up this afternoon. He’s in town, and will be up after dinner. He wants his money.”
She entered the bathroom and closed the door. Crumb lighted another cigarette and threw himself into an easy chair, where he sat scowling at a temple dog on a Chinese rug. ”

“ If you want to get a hop-head with the goods on him—right in the act of peddling—send a dick to the back of the Hollywood Drug Store, and have him wait there until a guy comes up and asks what time it is. ”