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The Soft Detective choose

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[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 118: I went into it all with her. Had a hell of an upper-and-downer in the end.
at upper and downer, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 243: You had a bit of a barney with Conor, didn’t you?
at barney, n.2
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 3: Got plenty of bods with nothing better to do this morning.
at bod, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 5: And I don’t care a bugger.
at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 63: The buzz round here is the victim’s some sort of Nobel Prize winner. Is that right?
at buzz, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 15: Looks as if chummy went out by the french windows.
at chummy, n.3
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 3: Just some poor geezer conking out.
at conk (out), v.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 204: Putting the fear of God in them’s the way to get a cough.
at cough, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 3: Give her this tuppenny-ha’penny task so she’ll learn some respect.
at tuppenny halfpenny, adj.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 72: Don’t let him off the hook just on his own say-so.
at let someone off the hook (v.) under hook, n.1
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 56: Jumbo heaved himself to his feet.
at jumbo, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 259: So it was you, liquored up to give yourself confidence, who went into the house.
at liquored (up), adj.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 49: A sullen pudding.
at pudding, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 115: Well, you know Vicky and I have split up?
at split up (v.) under split, v.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 208: That poor long streak of piss.
at long streak of piss (n.) under streak, n.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 47: I’ve realized my murder’s a top-brass affair. The victim’s famous. He won a Nobel Prize.
at top brass (n.) under top, adj.
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 259: But Professor Unwala was not the soft touch you thought he’d be.
at soft touch (n.) under touch, n.1
[UK] H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 244: You shouldn’t do that, Belinda. On and on, yap-yap-yap.
at yap, v.1
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