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(ref. to 1940s–50s) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 106: Charlie could house a string of girlfriends to work the tapper and sucker racket [...] A tapper is a typewriter, and a sucker is a vacuum cleaner. Charlie would go to the tapper shop and tell the manager that his wife was thinking of buying a typewriter [...] the salesman would leave it on approval for ten days. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 121: In India, as well as in England, Bayswater is familiarly known as ‘Asia Minor’. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 125: Barbs close your mind rather than expanding it. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 222: Amytal were the Blue Heavens he did not believe in, Nembutal were the yellow jackets he once had worn. (ref. to 1950s) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 133: The lively presence of Trinidadians, Jamaicans, et al – who were used to spirited congregations on sunlit streets [...] it [i.e. London W11] became known as ‘Brown Town’. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 207: A fixer [...] is the man who acts as a go-between for villains and the police. Most of them are regarded as ‘dirt’. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 207: A fixer [...] is the man who acts as a go-between for villains and the police. Most of them are regarded as ‘dirt’. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 254: He was isolated in a funk of doubt and apprehension. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 224: This one involved interceding with the Fraud Squad on behalf of a Mafia ‘paperhanger’ turned supergrass. (ref. 1950s) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 133: There was a reason for my grandfather’s new black shirt. ‘Little India’ was already home to an intriguing mix of Russian-Polish Jews, Cypriots and Maltese. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 222: If you organize long-firms for any length of time the police will eventually latch on to them. (ref. 1970s) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 209: When a member of the Nicholls clan called the Tibbes ‘a bunch of pikeys’, sensibilities were outraged. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 222: Seconal were the Red Devils he rode till he made it over the Tuinal Rainbow. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 222: Seconal were the Red Devils he rode till he made it over the Tuinal Rainbow. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 254: The scam had been Jimmy the Jew’s idea. (ref. to 1951) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 112: Charlie did not visibly partake of the enthusiasm displayed by the steamers [...] preferring to stand apart, the disdain etched on his face. (ref. to c.1948) Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 104: Mr Miller as he reluctantly called him ordered two ‘toms’ at once. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 127: At Number 49 Connaught Square the two uprights and crossbeam of Tyburn Tree gallows had once stood. Dead Men’s Wages (2003) 222: Amytal were the Blue Heavens he did not believe in, Nembutal were the yellow jackets he once had worn.