Editing Milton K Ozaki (section)

==Quotes from his Work==

'''From City of Sin (1952):'''

    Lee’s eyebrows did a startled rumba.  
    [She] went tripping ahead of us down the hall on her high heels, with her hips waving a saucy goodbye.
    Her mascaraed lashes came down over her green eyes and did a little dance, like long rows of black-stockinged legs doing the can-can.
    . . . the words spilling out of her mouth like pebbles from a torn bag.
    . . . her hot, fetid breath in my face and my chest rolling around on her bosom as though on gigantic ball bearings.

'''From Murder Doll (1952):'''

    [His heart] wasn’t beating – and his lungs were as still as a piece of cheese.
    I’ve been all around and busier than an ant in a bunch of grapes.

'''From The Affair of the Frigid Blonde (1950):'''

    “. . . he’s been as busy as an ant in a new pair of pants.”
    . . . his eyes became as cold and blue as a pair of frozen grapes.
    With a face like that, Frank Laughton had about as much chance of avoiding recognition as a one-legged midget on crutches.

'''From Maid for Murder (1955):'''

    Lisa Lincoln looked . . . as worn and haggard as a Sunday school picture of the wages of sin.
    She looked at me with eyes which were as uncommunicative as a pair of bottle caps.

'''From Never Say Die (1956):'''

    It was 7:30 in the p. m. and the sands of time were pouring out like little potatoes through a broken bag.
    . . . with the reckless abandon of a bank president wasting a paper clip.
    I touched his hand, then dropped it.  It was like clasping a handful of warm chitterlings.