Red Wind
by
Raymond Chandler
Jarred Endres
Professor Mosher
February 25, 2013
"He was drinking
straight rye in small glasses and he was all by himself in a world of
his own."
"The kid behind
the bar was in his early twenties and looked as if he had never had a
drink in his life."
"The prowl-car
boys came in perspiring. They were the usual large size and one of
them had a flower stuck under his cap and his cap on a bit crooked."
"She smoothed her
hair with that quick gesture, like a bird preening itself. Ten
thousand years of practice behind it."
"His hair ended
completely and exactly where his hat would start. Above that line was
hard white sweatless skin almost as glaring as scar tissue."
"She sighed,
said, "Goddam," in a casual voice, and curled up on a
davenport. It took all of the davenport. She had plenty of legs."
"I rode down to
the boulevard and picked out the best jewelry store on it and laid a
string of pearls on a black velvet mat under a daylight-blue lamp. A
man in a wing collar and striped trousers looked down at them
languidly."
"The old
Levantine wore a skull cap and two pairs of glasses and a full beard."
"Leon Valesanos,
the little brown man from Uruguay, made the afternoon papers. He had
been found hanging in an unnamed apartment."
"She wore a hat
like a shallow soup plate with a very wide edge, a brown tailor-made
suit with a severe mannish shirt and tie."
