- [first lines]
- Mike Hammer: [narrating] When you're alone in a graveyard you have many thoughts - when you're alone in graveyard and not dead, that is. I was wired and jumpy. Doing a single at one a.m. in a marble orchard isn't the best recipe for steady nerves.
- Ethel Fleetwood: I knew you weren't fooled by that love letter routine. Obviously, you're a man who knows his way around.
- Mike Hammer: That's funny, I had the same feeling about you.
- Mike Hammer: Yeah, I'll see you around noon.
- Ethel Fleetwood: Oh, you name the place.
- Mike Hammer: Right here. I want to see if Abner turns up in a cab or a coffin.
- Margaret Reed: This girl, Sandra, is she involved?
- Mike Hammer: She's part of the kidnap gang. Somebody double-crossed her and she thought she could sing her way out. Well, she didn't get past the verse.
- Abner Reed: Oh, you mean she's been arrested?
- Mike Hammer: No. She's on a slab in the morgue.
- Trina Greco: I don't know. She's been acting strange the last couple of days.
- Mike Hammer: What do you mean - strange?
- Trina Greco: Well, she wouldn't say who she'd been going out with or where she was going or anything and we talk about men, you know, just like you talk about us.
- Mike Hammer: No foolin'?
- Mike Hammer: How could he have met Sandra Mantell?
- Ethel Fleetwood: Oh, well, he knows every chorus line on 52nd Street.
- Mike Hammer: Yeah, but that doesn't prove a thing.
- Ethel Fleetwood: Proof? But, darling, that's your department. After all, I'm just painting the picture.
- [last lines]
- [Mike eyes the girls from Trina's chorus line]
- Trina Greco: See anything you like?
- Mike Hammer: Aw, no, I was just window shopping.
- Trina Greco: I'll be right back, so keep your hands on the counter.