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Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental. -- Lucille Kallen
Joel Cairo: You always have a very smooth explanation ready. Sam Spade: What do you want me to do, learn to stutter? -- Dashiell Hammett
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in creating a character with a voice and eye right out of a 1930s L.A. hard-boiled classic: guns and gams, booze and bodies, peepers and perps. Move over, Sam Spade: Kitty Pangborn is on the case. -- Linda Fairstein
I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum -- Dennis Lehane
Sam Spade is as gray as the economic skies over America and moves through the story as cool and slick as a Teflon cat. -- Stephen Sullivan
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