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Description edit
In this city, you can get anything done for a price. If you want someone's eyeglasses smashed, it'll cost you a subway token. You want his fingernails pulled out? His legs broken? You want him hurt so bad he's an invalid his whole life? You want him...killed? Let me talk to someone. It can be... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Steve Carella: detective
- Detective Meyer: detective
- Arthur Brown: detective
- Danny Gimp: Add a description of this character.
- Weeks: detective
- Bert Kling: detective
- Cynthia Keating
- Peter Byrnes
- Gerald Palmer
- Andrew Henry Hale
- Mr. Norman Zimmer
- Carl Blaney
- Hector Milagros
- Sharyn Cooke
- John Bridges
- Jenny
- Hal Willis
- Todd Alexander
- Martha Coleridge
- Althea Cleary
- Guido
- Mrs. Kipp
- Maxwell Corey Blaine
- Lorraine Riddock
- Maxie
- Jessica Miles
- Howard Langdon
- Andy Parker
- Betty Young
- Gabriel Foster
- Walter Hopwell
- Mayor
- Enrique Ramirez
- Steve
- Danny Nelson
- Monroe
- Geoffrey Holden
- Lloyd Burton
- Hawes
- Ollie Watts
- Clarence Hull
- Annie Rawles
- Rowland Chapp
- Ozzie Rivera
- Sarah Crawford
- Jack Walman
- Charles Colworthy
- Jimmy Palumbo
- Mr. Reynolds
- Miss Coleridge
- Mrs. Robert Keating
- Katherine Kipp
- Rudy Ehrlich
- Bess MacDougal
- Lower Stemmler
- Frank Sinatra
- Bryan Shanahan
- Josie Gallitano
- Frederick Kurtz
- Bingo
- Mike Tyson
- Mac Gordon
- Gabriel Foster Jones
- Louis Aronowitz
- Artie Brown
- Murchison
- Jefferson Long
- W. C. Fields
- Helen Hobson
- Miss Hobson
- Ruby Sass
- Joey
- Delroy Lewis
- Felicia Carr
- Fat Ollie
- Jenny Corbin
- Hildy
- Martin Luther King
- Marilyn Hollis
- Monoghan
- Naomi Janus
- Paul Blaney
- Bop
- Miss Carr
- Randy Flynn
- Nellie Brand
- Oliver Wendell Weeks
- Connie Lindstrom
First Sentence edit
"HE HAD heart trouble," the woman was telling Carella.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 49 of 57 in 87th Precinct Mysteries. (standard series)
Preceded by The Big Bad City, and followed by Money, Money, Money.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Pocket Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0671025708
Page Count: 336
Publisher: Pocket Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0671025708
Page Count: 336
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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