He who hesitates

By Ed McBain

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Eighty-seventh precinct (imaginary place), fiction, Carella, steve (fictitious character), fiction, New york (state), fiction, Fiction, 87th Precinct (Imaginary place), City and town life, Isola (imaginary place), fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Steve Carella (Fictitious character)

Description: "A craftsman visiting the city struggles to contact the 87th Precinct with details of a former lover s sudden death when there s another beauty distracting him. The 87th Precinct [is] one of the great literary accomplishments of the last half-century. Pete Hamill, Newsday McBain has the ability to make every character believable which few writers these days can do"--Associated Press.