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No Holiday From Murder QUOTES

No Holiday From Murder QUOTES

1 " I pulled out some folded-over pictures of US Presidents. I knew how to talk to bellboys. "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder

2 " Even if we ran into Charlie Chan he’d only smile and give us some proverb. "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder

3 " As Jones was leaving, he turned back and commented, “Maybe now you won’t write the cops so dumb on your next show.” He winked as he shut the door, having the last word after saving our skins. "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder

4 " Mary was stretched out on the lounge by the pool reading Agatha Christie’s new book, Dumb Witness, which a friend had sent her from England. I was reading Erich Maria Remarque’s sadly beautiful, Three Comrades. MGM had purchased it and were making a film adaptation starring Margaret Sullavan, who I happened to adore. We’d be here all week so I’d also brought Erle Stanley Gardner’s new Perry Mason novel, The Case of the Dangerous Dowager. "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder

5 " A doll! I smiled. Maybe someone else would have thought him crude, but I saw beneath his rough exterior. He was sweet. And he’d called me a doll, like in the pulp magazines. "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder

6 " I couldn’t think of any reason except the truth, which would only make him yell, or worse, laugh at me. It was humiliating, because he was right. It was silly, after all, losing myself in some pulp romance. Life wasn’t like that, not really. It was just that I needed a small break from my life sometimes. But how could I tell Robert that, and hurt his feelings? "

― Bobby Underwood , No Holiday From Murder