- Police Lt. Gentry: Is this man registered here?
- Motel Manager: That's right.
- Police Lt. Gentry: What name?
- Motel Manager: Smith! He gave me a ten-dollar bill.
- Police Lt. Gentry: Your rooms worth that much?
- Motel Manager: Nooo, the room's only worth six dollars, but for four extra bucks, even you can call yourself "Smith".
- Elaine Barstow: Have you ever heard of the Palmetto Health Farm?
- Michael Shayne: Yes I have. You have to be wealthy to get healthy there.
- Mrs. Carson: Don't you know what time it is?
- Michael Shayne: Yes and I also know what the score is. Two husbands, Belle. Add 'em up.
- Mrs. Carson: What are you talking about?
- Michael Shayne: That guy who slugged me - it was Watson wasn't it? Your first husband. I looked up the marriage license. No divorces and no previous condition of widowhood.
- Mrs. Carson: That's crazy!
- Michael Shayne: No. No, that's bigamy!
- Michael Shayne: That's all I need - a late date with Gentry.
- Lucy Hamilton: Well, I'll keep the percolator burning in the window.
- [discussing a murdered man with only one clue to his identity - a matchbook with Mike Shayne's name and phone number written inside]
- Michael Shayne: So it won't be a total loss, I do know one thing...
- Police Lt. Gentry: What?
- Michael Shayne: Who writes on matchbooks?
- Police Lt. Gentry: Who?
- Michael Shayne: Somebody in a big hurry or on the run.
- Police Lt. Gentry: Too bad he couldn't have run little faster - a .32 slug caught up with him.
- [while visiting a spa, Mike is nearly shot]
- Michael Shayne: For a health farm, this place isn't very healthy!
- [Gentry, with Mike's help, has just solved two murders and a kidnapping]
- Police Lt. Gentry: Well, one thing about this business - you meet such nice people.