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.”