Cop Hater

Cop Hater by McBain, Ed. mass_market edition. ISBN: 9780671775476.

THE HEROES OF THE CITYS STREETS BECOME THE HUNTED -- IN THIS CRIME FICTION CLASSIC ED MCBAINS FIRST 87th PRECINCT NOVEL Swift, silent, and deadly -- someone is knocking off the 87th Precincts finest, one by one. The how of the killings is obvious: three .45 shots from the dark add up to one, two, three very dead detectives. The why and the who are the Precincts headaches now. When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes victim number two, it looks like open-and-shut grudge killings. That is, until a third detective buys it. With one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella begins his grim search for the killer, a search that takes him into the citys underworld to a notorious brothel, to the apartment of a beautiful and dangerous widow, and finally to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head....