Thursday, April 21, 2011

Woman in The Dark by Dashiell Hammett (Vintage Crime 1933)


Robson said: "We are going now. Fraulein Fischer's going with us."
Brazil was looking at the dead dog, annoyance deepening in his copperish eyes. "That's all right if she wants to," he said indifferently.
The woman said: "I am not going."
Brazil was still looking at the dog. "That's all right too," he muttered, and with more interest: "But who did this?" He walked over to the dog and prodded its head with his foot. "Blood all over the floor," he grumbled.
Then, without raising his head, without the slightest shifting of balance or stiffening of his body, he drove his right fist up into Conroy's handsome, drunken face.

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