The headlines screamed:
KILLER SLAYS SECOND COP!
First Mike Reardon--his face nearly blasted away. Then young Dave Foster, sprawled on the concrete with a chest full of slugs. Only a maniac could have done it, people said. Only a raging cop hater.
With only one meager clue, Detective Steve Carella 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 room where the cop hater was waiting--waiting with a .45 automatic loaded and ready to kill again.
The back cover invites us to watch "the compelling television series based on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels each week on NBC". Doing a quick search on IMDB I learned that the series was called "87th Precinct" (very original!) starred Robert Lansing and Ron Harper and ran for all of one season in 1961-62. Clearly the TV audience of the time didn't find the show all that compelling.
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