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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:16 AM Sep 2019

Does anyone know where this quote is from?

"What is luck? Luck is waking up, on a summer-morning, after a wonderful night with a beautiful, red-blooded multiple murderess."

I read that about 15 years ago in a book and I can't remember where.

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Does anyone know where this quote is from? (Original Post) DetlefK Sep 2019 OP

Don't know, sounds like Hammett or Chandler... dchill Sep 2019 #1

I just checked CDerekGo Sep 2019 #2

I'd be tempted to say it's from a James Ellroy novel.... Paladin Sep 2019 #3

I've definitely read that, and I'm thinking it was in something science fiction-y petronius Sep 2019 #4

Sounds like something Tim Dorsey's Serge Storm would say..... Brother Buzz Sep 2019 #5

dchill

(38,462 posts)

1. Don't know, sounds like Hammett or Chandler...

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:23 AM

Sep 2019

with a touch of Spillane.

CDerekGo

(507 posts)

2. I just checked

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 11:42 AM

Sep 2019

Google and WikiQuotes - neither could locate your quote - word for word anyhow

Paladin

(28,246 posts)

3. I'd be tempted to say it's from a James Ellroy novel....

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:08 PM

Sep 2019

….but the tone is a bit too flippant. Let us know what you find out, OK? Sounds like my kind of book.

petronius

(26,602 posts)

4. I've definitely read that, and I'm thinking it was in something science fiction-y

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 12:45 PM

Sep 2019

A Stainless Steel Rat sort of thing? But I could be way off...

Brother Buzz

(36,407 posts)

5. Sounds like something Tim Dorsey's Serge Storm would say.....

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2019, 03:42 PM

Sep 2019

but I'm pretty sure it's not, nor do I believe it from any of the classic hard-boiled detective writers

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