Second in the 87th Precinct police procedural series, this book is an oldy moldy! It's older than I am, and that's pretty darned old. LOL I've read many of these years ago and am now in the process of re-reading them all and will eventually catch up with the newer ones. This book features a mugger who wears sunglasses at night, robs women of their money, slugs them in the face and then bows at the waist and says, "Clifford thanks you" before running off. It's a foregone conclusion that things are going to go beyond mugging at some point, and they do. The book is a bit dated (this WAS written in 1956 after all!) so there were some things I had a good chuckle about, like a Detective 2nd Grade making just over $5,000 a year, and other things that were sort of annoying--like a stool pigeon who talks constantly in that 50's hip slang, daddy-o, you dig? I kept thinking of him as Maynard G. Krebs! LOL But it was a quick, enjoyable read and I look forward to the rest of the series.
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