Cop hater : the classic first novel of the 87th Precint

McBain, Ed

Cop hater : the classic first novel of the 87th Precint / Ed McBain - xi, 188 pages - 87th Precinct mystery, book 1 .

"A .45 shot from the dark added up to one, two, three very dead detectives... Why? Who? Detective Steve Carella was just as much hooked by these questions as anyone... With one meager clue, he began his grim search: a search that led him through the city's low life to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head."--Cover.

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Police--United States--Fiction


Detective and mystery fiction

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