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‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 36: We could get more money out of him by working a fancy sort of badger game on him. I was to lead the old man on until I had him wrapped around my finger [...] Then we were going to shake him down for plenty of money. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 14: Brisk and fresh with five hours’ sleep under my belt. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 13: I’ll have a couple of the boys out calling on all the typewriter shops [...] to see if they can get a line on this one. ‘The Golden Horseshoe’ in Continental Op 64: ‘Where’s Kewpie?’ I asked. ‘Brother-in-lawing Ed?’ a big Swede girl leered at me. ‘I’ll see if I can find her.’. Continental Op (1975) 65: He’s going to need every brownie he can scrape up. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 13: We [...] sat back burning tobacco. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 21: Emil Bonfils [...] was flimflammed out of something by Gatvoort in Paris. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 10: He thought there was something funny about the way the man in it was sitting. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 33: He’ll be holed up somewhere until he sees how things are going. ‘The Golden Horseshoe’ in Continental Op (1975) 49: He turned out to be one Fred Rooney, alias ‘Jamocha’. ‘The Golden Horseshoe’ in Continental Op (1975) 44: He will have an alibi in case there is a kickback. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 22: The Dexter kitten didn’t do it. ‘The Tenth Clew’ Continental Op (1975) 13: It’s after four. What say we knock off and get some sleep? ‘The Golden Horseshoe’ in Continental Op (1975) 62: I’m catching the evening train, betting my marbles that the job was made in Tijuana. ‘The Golden Horseshoe’ in Continental Op (1975) 49: He couldn’t tell me where Ashcraft had lived [...] or who he had mobbed up with. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 21: The list was faked up, put in the wallet with the clippings and twenty dollars — to make the play stronger. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 37: I’m going to spend every minute of my time from now until they pop you off helping them pop you! ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 36: He was getting him all ribbed up to unload a fake invention on him. ‘The Tenth Clew’ in Continental Op (1975) 28: ‘He’s with the Continental Detective Agency’ [...] That tag — clearly a warning for Smith’s benefit — brought me to my feet. Continental Op (1975) 164: I’m going to clamp him some day.