Daily Dose

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Athur Conan Doyle

ONCE MORE

"Once more, however, my friend was destined to be disappointed."

From The Missing Three-Quarter

A Caricature

A Caricature

Clerihew for G.K.C.

GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Resisted neither jest nor pun,
And specially loved a paradox.
Clever old ox.

Daily Dose

From The Lady in the Lake, by Raymond Chandler

KIND OF

"'Kind of a coincidence a man in your line would be around when the body was found.'
'I'm like that,' I said. 'Lucky.'"

From Chapter 14

Clerihew for a Thin Man

DASHIELL HAMMETT

Like sour mash?
To avoid the crash,
Just don't slam it
Like Hammett.

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Red Harvest, by Dashiell Hammett

WHO

"'Who do you guess killed him?'
'God knows,' he mumbled. 'Everybody's killing everybody. Where's it going to end?'"

From Chapter 18, Painter Street

Clerihew of the Wooden Kimono

RAYMOND CHANDLER

The footie, the gink, the skirt, the pug,
The peeper, the patsy, the meat, the lug,
The hooch, the gunsel, the game panhandler,
All were dear to Raymond Chandler.

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler

"'How can you take it?' I asked him.
'Sit down, pal. Breathe quietly, keep your voice down, and remember that a Carne operative is to a cheap shamus like you what Toscanini is to an organ grinder's monkey.' He paused and grinned"

From Chapter 15