Whipcracks

I have always loved the writer Jim Thompson. I can't think of a single writer who could whipcrack a sentence, a line of dialogue or a chapter the way he could. So, you're a romantic, well try this on for size:

"She looked cute-mad and funny-sweet. She looked like she'd started somewhere and been mussed up along the way. She was a honey. She was sugar and pie. She was a bitch."

Jim Thompson, 'Nothing More Than Murder'

(from 1953, Dell Publication)