He had been an ordinary man; that had been the trouble. With all the money he had, with all that money gve him, with all his skill in money's use, he had still been an ordinary man, saying ordinary things, showing more than usual spite when he was annoyed. It was money made the spite effective, hurting, not any special quality in the man. He had not even been a first-rate heel, this Tony Mott of whom, now, everyone was making so much. He had had millions of dollars and used them irresponsibly. That was all you could say of him.
(from Murder Is Served, by Richard and Frances Lockridge)
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