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Great (or at least memorable)
Closings in Private Eye Fiction and Films
- "It was easy."
-- Mike Hammer in Spillane's I, The Jury, when Charlotte
asks him how he could shoot her in the stomach.
.
- "The stuff that dreams are made of."
-- from the John Huston-directed film version of The Maltese
Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (Bogart's adlibbed line at the
end, when one of the cops asks Spade what "that" thing
is)
.
- "Forget it, Jake! It's Chinatown."
--from the Roman Polanski-directed film, Chinatown, when
Jake Gittes' pal holds him back, trying to calm him down.
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