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Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime Hardcover – 2 June 2011

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Pretty much anybody would like this book... Excellent on every aspect of crime. ― Evening Standard

Wickedly entertaining ―
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Jonathon Green is the author of the Cassell Dictionary of Slang (1998) and Green's Dictionary of Slang (2010), for which he was awarded the 2012 Dartmouth Medal for the most outstanding reference work of the year. He has also written a history of lexicography, Chasing the Sun (1996), the legendary oral history of the British counterculture, Days in the Life (1988), several other oral histories and All Dressed Up: The Sixties and the Counterculture (1998). He lives in London and Paris.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847946283
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847946287
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