Quote of the Day (Raymond Chandler, on a Femme Fatale)

“Smart, smooth and no good. She had a way with men. She could make them crawl over her shoes.” —American mystery novelist Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), The Lady in the Lake (1944)

The character described in Chandler’s mystery, Mildred Haveland, was played by Jayne Meadows (pictured here) in Robert Montgomery’s film adaptation. Yes, seeing her with a gun pointed at you, I guess you could say she was “no good.”

Quote of the Day (Raymond Chandler, as Philip Marlowe Eyes a Femme Fatale)

“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.” — Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (1939)