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The Detective is Dead choose

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[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 19: I was thinking of one of those gold chains with a medallion based on a saint [...] not some soccer player or tit-and-bum girl.
at tits and ass, adj.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 39: His illness and the lay-off have gravely reconstituted all his fine, fart-arseing principles from fairy-land.
at fart-arsed, adj.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 48: Harpur would belt anything teenage to twenty-three.
at belt, v.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 25: Perhaps even that dreaming spiel king, Gerry Reid, could turn brutal.
at brutal, adj.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 45: She has this big-eyed way of buttering when she wanted something.
at butter, v.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 112: What ‘decent trading atmosphere’ could you have selling fixes to the hooked?
at fix, n.3
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 113: I’ve heard they’ve got someone in the frame.
at in the frame under frame-up, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 85: ‘Haven’t heard from you for a while, Jack.’ ‘I’ve been freezing you.’.
at freeze, v.2
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 54: ‘We’ve been doing the Smith and Wesson 645,’ Amy told him. ‘This is a real frightener.’.
at frightener, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 57: This you would never get from Frogs.
at Frog, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 77: Poise? That’s going it a bit.
at go it, v.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 169: Nice, but hardly a girl to get one’s gristle tightening.
at gristle, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 138: They wanted Ember to transform them, jack them up to the grandeur of prime operators he’s worked with in the unmatchable past.
at jack up, v.3
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 4: Some fucking old ponce wig will insist from the Bench that we [...] name the tipster.
at ponce, adj.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 82: This was the sort of kid who could have killed the postie for three piffling grand.
at postie, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 41: No trial rigmarole. No QC smarm-bucket with his, ‘If you please, Detective Chief Superintendent.’.
at smarm, n.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 9: You were acting on a tip from an informant, a so-called grass, or tout or snitch or snout, were you not?
at snout, n.4
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 187: No court would swallow we were tooled up and on the spot by accident.
at tooled (up), adj.
[UK] B. James Detective is Dead (1996) 3: Lovable laddies both of them in their turdish, grab-all ways.
at turdish (adj.) under turd, n.
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