Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime by Jonathon Green

Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime

Jonathon Green

394 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art crime informative medium-paced

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An acclaimed slang expert investigates the long and venerable history of the language of criminals, crooks, and con-menThe vocabulary of crime has a long history, in fact the first dictionary of words specifically used by criminals, "Hye-Way to th...

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