" I’d landed in Los Angeles after the war, and spent the past three years working as a private detective; mostly dodging trouble while trying to help this mug or that one get out of a jam of his own making. I wasn’t against helping out the so-called fairer sex, but in the line I’d chosen, and in the town I’d picked, more often than not dames were the trouble. "

― Bobby Underwood , Nightside (Nostalgia Crime, #3)