Thursday, March 25, 2010

Black Orchids by Rex Stout

Page 33:

The dick got out his memo book and wrote it down. "I don't think it was deliberate," he said. "I think she just changed her mind. I think she just – "

"You think? You say you think?"

"Yes, Inspector, I – "

"Get out. Take another man, take Dorsey, and go to that address and look into her. Don't pick her up. Keep on her. And for God's sake don't think. It's repulsive, the idea of you thinking."

– Inspector Cramer reacting to a subordinate's cognitive processes.

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