1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 A brunette quail [...] blammed into me.at blam, v.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 You’re the heel who’s been bleeding me, threatening to inform my wife I had a crush on Trixie Trask.at bleed, v.1
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 In case the movie industry gets tired of me and boots me out on my rear.at boot, v.1
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 No hard feelings for that bop on the jaw I gave you?at bop, n.1
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 [He] looked more like a professional bouncer than a diamond salesman; he had the build of a grizzly bear, a bullet-shaped conk with the hair cropped short, and two of the prettiest cauliflower ears you ever piped outside a boxing arena.at bouncer, n.1
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 ‘You can see what’s left of [the band] right here.’ Her mouth got sour. ‘Playing for buttons’.at button, n.1
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Then he sells the action to a cheapie firm [...] before my own production is even ready for cutting,.at cheapie, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 You used to be a gun moll in Chi, which would ruin you in the movies.at Chi, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 You think somebody from the old outfit might put the chill on him for revenge, hunh?at put the chill on (v.) under chill, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 I can handle my own clambakes, see?at clambake, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 ‘Oh,’ I sneered. ‘A Cossack, hunh?’.at cossack, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 Is that all it means to you? Don’t you realize this is croakery?at croakery (n.) under croaker, n.3
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 I was your husband’s best pal, we crushed out of stir together in Illinois.at crush out, v.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 You’re all damp. I’m sorry to hear you’re being blackmailed, but I’m not the shakedown artist.at damp, adj.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 All duded up in high heeled boots, Angora chaps, checkerboard shirt, and a ten-gallon Stetson.at duded up, adj.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 He came back within less than ten minutes; caught me flat-footed.at flat-footed, adj.4
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 He’d caught me red handed in the act of putting the frisk on his portable dressing trailer.at frisk, v.2
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Naturally you’d front for Brett since he’s paying your fee.at front for (v.) under front, v.2
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 I still crave to know why you want me to guard a guy whose giblets you detest.at giblets, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 She was hooked up with a hood, a small time grifter and gunsel.at gonsel, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 I favored them both with a scoffing sneer. ‘Horse chestnuts’.at horseshit!, excl.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 In this case the wolves were jive hounds—members of Wardman’s former orchestra.at -hound, sfx
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 What’s the inside dope? [...] Who gets pinched and why?at inside dope (n.) under inside, adj.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 Florrie Doddridge clipped you on the sconce with a fifth of juniper juice.at juniper (juice), n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 This smashes my pic to hellangone [...] I’ll have to scrap every scene Trixie appeared in.at pic, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 A Poverty Row independent company can pirate some footage of a cattle stampede or Indian fight without cost.at Poverty Row, n.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Focus on Death’ Hollywood Detective Jan. 🌐 I’m a private skulk in Hollywood and adjacent points.at private skulk (n.) under private, adj.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Go on, roll your hoop, or I’ll pinch you along with the jane.at roll one’s hoop (v.) under roll, v.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Murder’s Mouthpiece’ Hollywood Detective Aug. 🌐 You don’t look so seedy, kitten. That’s a nifty set of threads you’re wearing.at seedy, adj.
1944 R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Detective Mar. 🌐 Brett was [...] as sharp as a tack where brains were concerned.at sharp, adj.