Vulgar words in The Poisoned Pen (Page 1)

This book at a glance

damn x 1
jimmy x 3
            

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From him crooks can obtain anything from a jimmy to a safe-cracking outfit.

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These arson trusts are not the ordinary kind of firebugs whom the firemen plentifully damn in the fixed belief that one-fourth of all fires are kindled by incendiaries.

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Quietly as he could, he jimmied it open, muffling the jimmy in a felt cloth that was on a table.

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The marks made in breaking the lock were not those of a jimmy but of a screwdriver.

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