Nightside (Nostalgia Crime, #3) QUOTES

1 " The Bird Park.” We spent more time than I had expected to there — nearly an hour. We walked across quaint bridges, saw flamingos and macaws and toucans, and a host of others. Ellen bought the appropriate bags of nourishment to feed the ducks, swans, and various colorful larger birds, some from South America, who would eat right out of her hand. She loved it, and the aviary was beautiful, the water and trees and birds. Secretly, however, I was a bit disappointed. They’d scaled it back during the war, and maybe if you’d never been through it back then it seemed wonderful. But if you had, it was a reminder that winning the war had many price tags attached to it. "

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

3 " Finally he turned to me, his eyes shifting from compassion to business in a heartbeat. “You didn’t bring me out here for that, you must need something. Who exactly are you, and how are you playing this? "

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

5 " I was disappointed and relieved at the same time; disappointed because I’d wanted to meet Eddie face to face, get a bead on how all the pieces I had so far tied together; relieved because if Eddie only wanted to give me a message, we weren’t at the shooting stage yet. An incurable case of lead poisoning might come later. "

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

7 " I packed up the office files, then swung by the apartment to pay up my rent and let the sour-faced old bat who collected it know I was moving out. She didn’t seem heartbroken. "

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

9 " Alan Ladd as Neale Jordan Veronica Lake as Ellen Hillman Mike Mazurki as Paul Fontana Elisha Cook Jr. as Ciro Ricci Gloria Graham as May Martell Frank Lovejoy as Randolph McGraw Hugh Beaumont as Charlie Gray Lloyd Nolan as Victor Haskell June Lockhart as Janet Haskell James Craig as Eddie Lomax Laird Cregar as Frank Perkins William Bendix as Art Barker Richard Denning as Jerry Markle James Gleason as Sam Menard Tom Drake as Roy Douglas Dick as Tommy Barrow Virginia Grey as Claire Allen "

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

11 " 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)

13 " The air was clean here, fresh and alive with scents of the sea and various flora mingling faintly with something earthier; probably buffalo and horses. The earthier smells were indistinct enough to only suggest a wilder time in all this beauty. A reminder to the people frolicking in the water, lying on the beaches reading and relaxing, riding horseback on trails, fishing or availing themselves of the wonderful downtown area of Avalon, that in a once upon a time not so distant, this would not have been possible. "

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