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The Price of Murder choose

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[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 12: I wouldn’t put myself in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder 68: Hell, if you’re really in the bag, why not screw Catton [and] take all that’s left [HDAS].
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 103: They can bump you out of that job.
at bump (off), v.
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 91: The first major setback in your whole life [...] Did you chew up the carpets and run around the walls?
at chew the carpet, v.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 24: Social conscience. Crap!
at crap!, excl.
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 178: It’s a big deal. It isn’t a gouge for a thousand or two.
at gouge, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 178: Whoever they had on the hook, it wasn’t information that would just maybe bust up a marriage.
at hook, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 148: ‘... soft!’ Keefler yelled. ‘Every damn one of you! [...] You mushbellies don’t understand what it is to be a cop.’.
at mushbelly (n.) under mush, n.1
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 180: He got it hauled free by giving the trucker a piece of the pie.
at pie, n.
[US] J.D. MacDonald Price of Murder (1978) 73: Silly bitch. Lee deserved the best, not a round-heeled bag like that.
at roundheeled, adj.
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