"The streets were dark with something more than night."
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"Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it."
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“Hate is a lack of imagination.”
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"The face of Nicholas Easter was slightly hidden by a display rack filled with slim cordless phones.."
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"I had been waiting for an hour, or maybe longer. I was used to that; it's part of being a detective..."
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"On a snow-swept January evening of 1991, Jonathan Pine, the English night manager of the Nefertiti Hotel in Zurich.."
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"My name is Kinsey Millhone. I'm a private investigator, licensed by the state of California."
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