Sam Spade
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The magazine turned out to be time with a picture of an austere Asiatic gentleman on the cover.
Two pages, and I have the kind of headache you can only get from reading the news these days, so I turned it in on a slick pulp with a breathless yarn about an international gun shoe and a satin-lined cloak who kept running into women with bosoms full of papers.
She gazed up at him, her eyes smoldering, heavy-lidded.
Her knife made a glistening arc, sopping as his hand met her wrist, gripping it like a vine.
With the other hand, he ripped away her veil, smothered her lips in hot, fierce kisses, felt her go limp in his arms.
Now, Zelda, my girl, he whispered, let's have the plans for that plutonium-powered rocket ship.
What can I do for you, Veil Lady?
You are perhaps working on a remake of The Thief of Baghdad for television.