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"ref": "2011, Phil Rickman, Curfew",
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"ref": "2014, Erle Stanley Gardner, Murder Up My Sleeve",
"text": "About the time you boys get close to home they'll decide they need a fall-guy, and you'll be elected, Fred.",
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