Jack Webb: Pat Novak and Jeff Regan Quips & Quotes

"It was a pretty room, if you like dead women on your rugs. She was stretched out in a pale, yellow dressing gown, as quiet as an April morning and twice as pretty." - Pat Novak, Private Investigator 490423 Rita Malloy

"The veins stood out in his face and made a pattern as if he slept on an alligator bag instead of a pillow."

"He was crumpled up against the desk and she was staring down at him as if she forgot to water the plants." - 490604 Agnes Botton

"The sky was the color of a bruised spot on a man's arm."


"He was crumpled up against the desk and she was staring down at him as if she forgot to water the plants." - 490604 Agnes Botton



Jeff Regan:


"All kinds of people have followed me at one time or another - and I have followed all kinds of people. This had a professional feel to it.

"I stood there, listening... remembering my automatic in the suitcase back at my hotel.

"It only took him second. He was a professional, alright. All I could see was a well-pressed Gaberdine, two arms and hand-painted tie. The next thing was a gun butt in a white, linen handkerchief subtled slowly against the side of my head."


Pat Novak:

"It was a pretty room, if you like dead women on your rugs. She was stretched out in a pale, yellow dressing gown, as quiet as an April morning and twice as pretty."

- 490423 Rita Malloy