Law is where you buy it in this town. — Raymond Chandler

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Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely · 1940

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 19.

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