Цитаты из книги The Falcon's Malteser

The Сhristmas rush had turned into the Сhristmas panic and the season seemed to have run pretty short of goodwill.

Of all the baths in all the towns in all the world, you have to walk into mine.

The walls were plastered with posters from theaters and music halls where Lauren had appeared, either as a singer or as an escape artist's assistant. It was a room with a past but no future. A room of rising damp and fading memories.

It was after three and already it was getting dark, the sun sliding behind the horizon like a drunk behind a bar.

I reached the door and the cold night hit me like an angry woman, slapping my face and tearing at my hair.

Cigarettes were killing him while booze was arranging the funeral.

Okay—maybe you're not supposed to call them dwarfs these days. Vertically challenged . . . that's what it says in the book. But not this book. The truth is, this guy was as challenged as they come.