Noir/VN/Noir

Vince Edwards, Murder By Contract, Irving Lerner, 1958

But whatever hap­pens, wherever the scene is laid, some­body, some­where, will quietly set out—somebody has already set out, some­body still rather far away is buy­ing a tick­et, is board­ing a bus, a ship, a plane, has landed, is walk­ing toward a mil­lion pho­to­graph­ers, and presently he will ring at my door—a big­ger, more respect­able, more com­pet­ent Gradus.

—Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962

Burt Lancaster, The Killers, Robert Siodmak, 1946