Daily Dialogue — February 8, 2020

Easy Rawlins: What do you prefer to use… as your weapon?
Daphne: Why don’t you search me and find out?

— Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), screenplay by Carl Franklin, novel by Walter Mosley

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Private Eye.

Trivia: Based on the book of the same name by Walter Mosley. Mosley wrote several Easy Rawlins books. All but two — “Gone Fishin’” and “Six Easy Pieces” — include a color in the title of the book.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A private eye movie trope is saucy dialogue with a heavy sexual subtext. Here you go!