crookery

He seemed to have inherited his father's love of crookery.

When it was due, the game of crookery would be ready to be broken.

But he would prefer to take a rap for that crookery, rather than be charged with murder.

Nevertheless, upon him rests much of the success of this crookery.

He remains a master of transforming crookery into opera.

Crime's new success was giving The Shadow a sure opportunity to place full blame for crookery exactly where it belonged!

The thing smacked of crookery on Bryland's part.

One man's research is another man's crookery.

I began to wish I had stayed with crookery and away from the Special Corps.

Had the phone back in my pocket an instant before my companion in crookery popped into sight.

It was either small-time crookery or the docks, and I thought, well, the crookery's better, really.

"But I recognize crookery when I see it," Rosa flashed back.

Leon Grath was trying to pin crookery upon his esteemed brother Noel.

Crookery was afoot tonight.

That's free-market capitalism, not crookery.

Mr. Laughton is an important arrival in Crookery Nook, yet we trust he will not stay there too long.

Predominating in the evil gang leader's mind was a hatred for Wellerton, whom he had encouraged into crookery and who had outgrown his sponsor.

He was blurting all he knew; blabbing the name of Corbal; blaming all he could upon his partner in crookery.

These were the trophies of his first job in Parkland - the one piece of crookery that had ruined old Warren Knightson.

Just as Merrick's Junkyard contained evidence that lacquer had been highjacked, so did it hold the proof of wholesale crookery in rubber.

As Cranston, The Shadow had chatted with many men who tried to cover up crookery, but none had come up to Scorpio.

As yet, Herb hadn't been officially informed that J. M. Cruke was actually Long Steve Bydle, master of Chicago crookery.

If mainstream science stays asleep and failis to yell in protest at the fraud and crookery of climate "science" then it will deserve all that is coming its way.

Delhugh, real brain behind crime, pretended philanthropist who had used benefactions merely as a build-up toward a career of master crookery - he was a man who now enjoyed an evil triumph.

Mr Delors's reply, however, which begins to explain the mystery of the Vatican's medieval levels of personal consumption, will do little to console those who worry about crookery in the Common Agricultural Policy.