Deb Aaronson, Michael Barson, A. I. Bezzerides (“chipped glass” Thieves’ Market, 122; “The way they cook in this place” On Dangerous Ground, 213), Leigh Brackett (“a more dignified form of endeavour” The Long Goodbye, 219), Carl Bromley, Richard Brooks (“but afterwards, we’ll have business together” The Killers, 214), W. R. Burnett (“Small-timers for small jobs” High Sierra, 6), Raymond Chandler (“the machinery had started to move and nothing could stop it” Double Indemnity, 158; “You can’t figure them all” Double Indemnity, 241), G. K. Chesterton (“Thieves respect property” The Man Who Was Thursday, 169), Jim Collins, Charles Dickens (“got his own horse down to a straw a day…” Oliver Twist, 13), Fyodor Dostoyevsky (“I do not recognize any judgment over me, I know all the same that I will be judged” The Idiot, 162; “with one blow, like a sheep” The Idiot, 216), Marina Drukman, Daniel Fuchs (“jobs like that, one after another” Criss Cross, 89; “the way you know everything, the way you figure it all out” Criss Cross, 239), Jean Genet (“see omens in the slightest accidents” The Thief’s Journal, 4), David Halpern, George V. Higgins (“I keep looking at you…” Trust, 178), John C. Higgins (“You’re never slow sticking my neck out” Border Incident, 193), Patricia Highsmith (“This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life” The Talented Mr. Ripley, 74), John Huston (“but afterwards, we’ll have business together” The Killers, 214), Peter Kranitz, Maurice Leblanc (“By what signs can one hope to identify a face” The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, 7), Michael Lindgren, Ross MacDonald (“it didn’t look as if it had any money in it, or ever would again” The Way Some People Die, 194), Gina Maolucci, Herman Melville (“In general, a black and shameful period lies before me…” The Confidence-Man, 77), Melville House, Eddie Muller, Edmund H. North (“don’t judge his brains by yours” Colorado Territory, 228), Janet Oshiro, Kazu Otsuka (“I’m not begging anyone” Pigs and Battleships, 193), Jo Pagano (“They sure drop the net over you, don’t they?” The Sound of Fury, 21), Abraham Polonsky (“You worried about it…” Odds Against Tomorrow, 62; “just to live and be guilty” Force of Evil, 225), Nicholas Ray (“The way they cook in this place” On Dangerous Ground, 213), Alain Robbe-Grillet (“A spiteful contraction gradually contorted his face” The Erasers, 244), The Robbins Office, Martin Scorsese (“if I do something wrong I want to pay for it in my own way” Mean Streets, 126), Georges Simenon (“He was almost a mascot, like a family pet you are used to seeing in the same place” Dirty Snow, 113), Ross Thomas (185), B. Traven (“Don’t play innocent; you know what we want” The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, 193), John Twist (“don’t judge his brains by yours” Colorado Territory, 228), Antony Veiller (“but afterwards, we’ll have business together” The Killers, 214), Billy Wilder (the machinery had started to move and nothing could stop it” Double Indemnity, 158; “You can’t figure them all” Double Indemnity, 241), Mary Wowk.