His keen mind was finding another explanation - one that meant murder!

I've been ready to drill him if he means murder.

This can mean murder where any and all others are concerned.

"It means murder," said he, stooping over the dead man.

You ask why the clean one, in the inner office, means murder?

That word meant murder, but Marcia accepted it with her former laugh, a rather lovely one.

To do that would mean murder - for none had died during twenty-odd years.

If I tell it, it will mean murder, for sure.

"Meaning that in certain other places murder is no crime."

As a genre, true crime usually means murder, most often among the middle class or the rich.