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87th Precinct

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87th Precinct	label	87th Precinct
87th Precinct	page	EightySeventhPrecinct
87th Precinct	comment	The 87th Precinct series is a Long-Running Book Series in the Police Procedural genre, written by Ed McBain (the crime-fiction writing pseudonym of Evan Hunter). It features a revolving cast of police officers from the eponymous precinct, located in an unnamed city that isn't exactly New York.The series began in 1956 and continued until 2005 with the novels progressing from short pocket novels of roughly 200 pages (often released two or three times a year) to the longer style of novel common today (released once every year or two). The series was atypical in a number of ways from most other mystery/police drama series in that cases were often solved through routine police work, mistakes made by the criminals, or the criminals were not apprehended at all. Also atypical was that the detectives were usually less personally invested in the case – they went home at night, let other detectives handle part of the foot work, and treated the cases as a matter of routine. Detectives who served as the primary protagonist in a previous novel in the series would often be a secondary character in the next and there was no set pattern as to which detectives were partners or not. Given the time-length of the series it also had its own version of Comic-Book Time where the officers stayed roughly the same age throughout the series but still referenced previous cases and major events.There have been several screen adaptations, including the feature films Cop Hater (1958), The Mugger (1958), The Pusher (1960), Fuzz (1972), and Blood Relatives (1978); a short-lived weekly series, 87th Precinct (1961–62); and three Made for TV Movies, Lightning (1995), Ice (1996), and Heatwave (1997). Most famously, King's Ransom was adapted into the Japanese film High and Low (1963) by Akira Kurosawa. So Long As You Both Shall Live and Jigsaw were also adapted for Columbo (as "No Time to Die" and "Undercover" respectively, with Arthur Brown joining Columbo in the latter).Installments: Cop Hater (1956) The Mugger (1956) The Pusher (1956) The Con Man (1957) Killer's Choice (1957) Killer's Payoff (1958) Killer's Wedge (1958) Lady Killer (1958) 'til Death (1959) King's Ransom (1959) Give the Boys a Great Big Hand (1960) The Heckler (1960) See Them Die (1960) Lady, Lady, I Did It! (1960) The Empty Hours (1960) Like Love (1962) Ten Plus One (1963) Ax (1963) He Who Hesitates (1965) Doll (1965) Eighty Million Eyes (1966) Fuzz (1968) Shotgun (1968) Jigsaw (1970) Hail, Hail, the Gangs All Here (1971) Sadie, When She Died (1972) Lets Hear It for the Deaf Man (1961) Hail to the Chief (1973) Bread (1974) Blood Relatives (1975) So Long as You Both Shall Live (1976) Long Time No See (1977) Calypso (1979) Ghosts (1980) Heat (1981) Ice (1983) Lightning (1984) Eight Black Horses (1985) Poison (1987) Tricks (1987) Lullaby (1989) Vespers (1989) Widows (1991) Kiss (1992) Mischief (1993) And All Through the House (1984) Romance (1995) Nocturne (1997) The Big Bad City (1999) The Last Dance (1999) Money, Money, Money (2001) Fat Ollie's Book (2002) The Frumious Bandersnatch (2003) Hark! (2004) Fiddlers (2005)
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87th Precinct / int_103e0141	type	Dying Clue
87th Precinct / int_103e0141	comment	Dying Clue: In Lady, Lady, I Did It!, one of the victims manages to gasp the word "carpenter" before dying. Investigation by the 87th Precinct fails to turn up a suspect who is named Carpenter or who works with wood. It turns out the victim was actually saying "car painter" (i.e. the man who had recently painted his car) but his thick accent turned it into "carpenter". The Swedish procedural, The Laughing Policeman, about a mass shooting on a Stockholm bus, with a member of the Violence Squad among the victims, turns on exactly the same sort of obscure dying utterance which the cops misunderstand because he has an American accent.
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87th Precinct / int_10a6623b	type	Fair Cop
87th Precinct / int_10a6623b	comment	Fair Cop: Bert Kling, Eileen Burke, Annie Rawles. Sharyn Cooke is both this and a Hospital Hottie, being Deputy Chief Surgeon for the department.
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87th Precinct / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
87th Precinct / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: A drunk sailor in The Mugger says his ship is "U S S Huntuh".
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87th Precinct / int_13dc1beb	type	Serial Killings, Specific Target
87th Precinct / int_13dc1beb	comment	Serial Killings, Specific Target: Cop Hater, Long Time, No See and Mischief.
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87th Precinct / int_1495d0e6	type	Non Sequitur
87th Precinct / int_1495d0e6	comment	Non Sequitur: Meyer often blurts his (unrelated to the topic at hand) thoughts out loud, confusing the others.
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87th Precinct / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
87th Precinct / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Some of the most mild and harmless-seeming people turn out to be killers, such as Timothy Moore, the victim's medical student boyfriend in Ice.
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87th Precinct / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
87th Precinct / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: The same cast of characters were used for the entire 49-year run of the series. This necessitated revisions over time, such as characters who originally had seen military service in World War II getting rewritten so that their service occurred during Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, etc.
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87th Precinct / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
87th Precinct / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: The Deaf Man, a diabolical Moriarty-esque criminal genius. His real name and biography are never revealed, and even his deafness may be an affectation.
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87th Precinct / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
87th Precinct / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The buffoonish and arrogant homicide detectives Monoghan and Monroe.
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87th Precinct / int_1fb4d915	type	The Stool Pigeon
87th Precinct / int_1fb4d915	comment	The Stool Pigeon: Danny Gimp is a useful informant whose sole profession is lingering on the edges of crime picking up things to sell to the cops. Fats Donner is also one of these.
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87th Precinct / int_20c11a5c	type	Second Episode Introduction
87th Precinct / int_20c11a5c	comment	Second Episode Introduction: Monaghan and Monroe debut in The Mugger, the second book of the series.
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87th Precinct / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
87th Precinct / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: Some books take place over the course of a single day.
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87th Precinct / int_290fb089	type	Bully Turned Buddy
87th Precinct / int_290fb089	comment	Bully Turned Buddy: As a kid Meyer had a bully named Patrick Cassidy (one of the many kids who called him "Meyer Meyer, Jew on Fire") who once literally tried to force Meyer to kiss his butt as a form of dominance after Meyer gave him an Embarrassing Nickname of his own. Meyer hoped to beat up Cassidy some day, only to find that the man was a cop when he looked him up again, with Cassidy actually being the one to encourage Meyer to join the police force as well.
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87th Precinct / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
87th Precinct / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: Tricks. There's even a group of circus midgets who yell "Trick or treat!" before shooting people.
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87th Precinct / int_2dcb1d2e	type	Black Gal on White Guy Drama
87th Precinct / int_2dcb1d2e	comment	Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Kling's relationship with Sharyn Cooke has some of this and partially falls apart because of said drama.
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87th Precinct / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
87th Precinct / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Arthur Brown, and he's more than happy to play on white people's prejudices (see Jigsaw for an excellent example). Unfortunately, some white suspects have a tendency to talk to the white cop who's interviewing them (usually Kling) and ignore Brown completely. Mostly subverted in the Columbo film "Undercover".
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87th Precinct / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
87th Precinct / int_315a122	comment	Sharyn Cooke is both this and a Hospital Hottie, being Deputy Chief Surgeon for the department.
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87th Precinct / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
87th Precinct / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The Deaf Man is this for the precinct and for Steve Carella in particular.
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87th Precinct / int_33c2b1e2	type	Best Served Cold
87th Precinct / int_33c2b1e2	comment	Best Served Cold: The main plot in Ten Plus One and Fiddlers. In the former, the killer is targeting people who were in a play with his wife at university, and who participated in an orgy-turned-gang rape during the aftershow which left her infertile. In the latter, the killer is targeting people who screwed him over in some way, from his own mother - who abandoned him and his brother - to a teacher who refused to give him an A and made fun of him.
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87th Precinct / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
87th Precinct / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Carella's, in Doll. He's found and rescued just before his kidnappers are about to make it very real.
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87th Precinct / int_3820a9ea	type	Tomboyish Name
87th Precinct / int_3820a9ea	comment	Tomboyish Name: Though Mrs. Carella's given name is Theodora, everyone calls her "Teddy".
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87th Precinct / int_3a4e34fe	type	Themed Aliases
87th Precinct / int_3a4e34fe	comment	Themed Aliases: The Deaf Man always uses aliases that are some sort of play on words on 'deaf' in a variety of languages.
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87th Precinct / int_3ae5bcf1	type	Trojan Ambulance
87th Precinct / int_3ae5bcf1	comment	Trojan Ambulance: In So Long As You Both Shall Live, Augusta Kling is abducted on her wedding night by her Stalker with a Crush, who is a paramedic and drives her away in an ambulance.
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87th Precinct / int_3d29fed	type	NoKillLikeOverKill
87th Precinct / int_3d29fed	comment	No Kill like Overkill: Pepe Miranda's death in See Them Die. First, he is shot repeatedly by the army of cops. Then Andy Parker empties his gun into him. And then, Parker grabs another gun and shoots Miranda in the head. Twice.
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87th Precinct / int_3e353a08	type	Accidental Kidnapping
87th Precinct / int_3e353a08	comment	Accidental Kidnapping: King's Ransom has the son of a servant mistaken for the son of a rich man and abducted.
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87th Precinct / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
87th Precinct / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man, Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
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87th Precinct / int_41d0640b	type	Hello, Attorney!
87th Precinct / int_41d0640b	comment	Hello, Attorney!: Prosecutor Nellie Brand is often introduced being called over to the precinct after having just been dressing up nice for a dinner date or something.
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87th Precinct / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
87th Precinct / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: A variant occurs in Long Time No See when someone confesses a lesser crime, not to the authorities, but to a confidant who he's afraid will go to the authorities if he tells the real story. In the Back Story, the murder victim was an Accomplice by Inaction to the Unfriendly Fire murder of his superior in The Vietnam War. Years later, he needs to bare his soul and talk to his therapist about what happened, but claims that it was a gang-rape he stood by and witnessed instead of a murder (rape has a statute of limitations and murder doesn't).
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87th Precinct / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
87th Precinct / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: Carella is kidnapped, chained to a radiator and injected with heroin in Doll.
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87th Precinct / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
87th Precinct / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: The Deaf Man, surprisingly. On one hand he constantly gets a lot of people killed and avoids being arrested. On the other hand, he always ends up empty handed, continuously fails to prove himself smarter than the detectives of the 87th Precinct, and is repeatedly badly injured and/or forced to flee town with his tail between his legs. The guy is such a smug sadist whose plans often entail stunning collateral damage, that it's pretty satisfying to watch.
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87th Precinct / int_486b2b4c	type	Girls Behind Bars
87th Precinct / int_486b2b4c	comment	Girls Behind Bars: Part of Marilyn's backstory in Poison, being imprisoned in Mexico and subjected to various abuses.
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87th Precinct / int_4aaffbd5	type	I Never Said It Was Poison
87th Precinct / int_4aaffbd5	comment	I Never Said It Was Poison: Frequent mistake of suspects being questioned is saying more than they claim to know about.
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87th Precinct / int_4e95743e	type	Cutlery Escape Aid
87th Precinct / int_4e95743e	comment	Cutlery Escape Aid: In So Long as You Both Shall Live, a kidnapped woman uses the vinegar and oil left with her salad to remove the rust and lubricate the door hinges of the room where she is being held. She then uses the fork to scrape away the rust and pop the pins out of the hinges to escape the room.
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87th Precinct / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
87th Precinct / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: George Lasser in Axe is killed for "poaching" customers in a business that amounted to maybe ten dollars a week: One short story has a Rabbi murdered by An ultra conservative colleague upset that he - reluctantly and only due to the workers busy schedule - was willing to hire a workman to renovate the Synagogue on the Sabbath. In Lady, Lady I Did It!, The killer is a garage employee who gunned down a customer - and three innocent bystanders - out of simple anger that the man didn't like the color he'd repainted the car and made him do it over again. Not helping the matter was that the main victim was Jewish and the killer was an antisemite.
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87th Precinct / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
87th Precinct / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: 88th Precinct detective Fat Ollie Weeks, and police informant Fats Donner. The former is a bigot, the latter a pedophile.
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87th Precinct / int_5148024	type	Locked into Strangeness
87th Precinct / int_5148024	comment	Locked into Strangeness: Detective Cotton Hawes has a white streak in his otherwise red hair as a result of his hair growing back over a knife scar.
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87th Precinct / int_5320ff11	type	This Is My Name on Foreign
87th Precinct / int_5320ff11	comment	This Is My Name on Foreign: The Deaf Man's aliases are always some kind of play on 'deaf' in a foreign language: sometimes literally translating as 'The Deaf Man'.
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87th Precinct / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
87th Precinct / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Carella reads his own obituary in Doll.
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87th Precinct / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
87th Precinct / int_56635771	comment	And in Lady, Lady, I Did It!, when Carella, Brown and Kling go to arrest the killer, Kling loses all control and beats him half to death, because one of his victims was Kling's girlfriend Claire Townsend.
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87th Precinct / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
87th Precinct / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty Said murderer ends up confessing in Shotgun and does get charged and presumably convicted. Karma caught up to him.
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87th Precinct / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
87th Precinct / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Both Columbo adaptations strip out almost all the social, racial and sexual commentary, as well as combining several detectives into one role that Lt. Columbo himself fills (although as mentioned above Arthur Brown does appear in the second one). They are essentially the same basic plot with a lot of changes to the finer details.
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87th Precinct / int_6339e2bd	type	Disabled Love Interest
87th Precinct / int_6339e2bd	comment	Disabled Love Interest: Theodora "Teddy" Carella, a deaf mute.
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87th Precinct / int_673999b1	type	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
87th Precinct / int_673999b1	comment	Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
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87th Precinct / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
87th Precinct / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: Roger Havilland was a "gentle" cop until he tried to intervene when a street punk was being beaten up and both the victim and assailants turned on him, putting him in the hospital. He came out a sour man prone to hitting people.
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87th Precinct / int_6b1013ef	type	Paranormal Episode
87th Precinct / int_6b1013ef	comment	Paranormal Episode: Ghosts is the only novel to feature supernatural, and with Det. Steve Carella seemingly being saved by a ghost.
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87th Precinct / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
87th Precinct / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Usually averted, but played straight with Don King from King's Ransom.
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87th Precinct / int_6cbcd596	type	Gangbangers
87th Precinct / int_6cbcd596	comment	Gangbangers: Hail to the Chief has the detectives investigating the fallout between a turf war (partially motivated by race) between three separate gangs.
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87th Precinct / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
87th Precinct / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Just about any time Carella thinks about Assistant District Attorney Henry Lowell he remembers that he's the guy who failed to convict the murderer of Carella's father, usually admitting to himself that the man tried hard and it isn't fair to hold it against him, but he still does.
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87th Precinct / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
87th Precinct / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: The Pusher, Sadie When She Died, Ghosts, Eight Black Horses, Money Money Money, All Through the House. (The latter of which is actually an illustrated short story.)
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87th Precinct / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
87th Precinct / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Fat Ollie Weeks throws around racist slurs or stereotypes multiple times per conversation, but the man is a very good detective, ultimately honest and never hesitates to investigate the murder of a minority. The "bigot" part is gradually (although not fully) eroded in the last few books as he starts dating a Hispanic detective.
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87th Precinct / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
87th Precinct / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity!: Taped evidence in Bread, misunderstood at first.
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87th Precinct / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
87th Precinct / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: In The Heckler, the Deaf Man and his accomplices make off in an ice cream van. But it has no ice cream and, while awaiting the ferry, a police patrolman asks for an ice cream...
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87th Precinct / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
87th Precinct / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: A couple of books contain references to other works written by McBain under his real name of Evan Hunter: Axe: The opening line of The Blackboard Jungle is quoted in Killer's Payoff.
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87th Precinct / int_7b8ee2f5	type	I Remember Because...
87th Precinct / int_7b8ee2f5	comment	I Remember Because...: In Ghosts, a bartender remembers a suspect was drinking at the bar during the murder because, right around that time, another customer did a drunken striptease and the suspect gave the bartender a $5 tip and made a joke about the floor show.
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87th Precinct / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
87th Precinct / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: In Tricks, Parker has a spark with another Halloween party guest before realizing she's with a group of thieves and killers his colleagues are after (in fact, she's the one who's done all of the killing) and arresting her with some regret.
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87th Precinct / int_7e1184d8	type	Suspect Is Hatless
87th Precinct / int_7e1184d8	comment	Suspect Is Hatless: In Lady, Lady I Did It, a gunman opens fire in a crowded bookstore; killing several people. Despite there being multiple eyewitnesses, the police are unable to get an accurate description as most of them were focused on the gun. And, even then, the description of the gun varies greatly from person to person. It turns out, the gunman was using two quite different guns; one in each hand. Lampshaded in Blood Relatives when a victim fails to pick a suspect out of a lineup. The narrative then describes how at some time during their training, police officers have to describe someone who entered their classroom during a lecture (results of which are, to say the least, varying).
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87th Precinct / int_7e84a642	type	Serial Rapist
87th Precinct / int_7e84a642	comment	Serial Rapist: Lightning involves one who keeps re-attacking the same women.
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87th Precinct / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
87th Precinct / int_7fbb13bf	comment	In Long Time No See, the blind and impoverished first victim is killed for trying to blackmail a war buddy over an Unfriendly Fire incident after crossing the Despair Event Horizon.
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87th Precinct / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
87th Precinct / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The Deaf Man at his introduction in The Heckler wins a poker match by calculating hand probabilities.
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87th Precinct / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
87th Precinct / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Several, for example Charles Tudor from Give the Boys a Great Big Hand. Both Carella and Meyer feels sympathy for him for being such a Love Martyr.
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87th Precinct / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
87th Precinct / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Jeannie Page is killed for this reason in The Mugger. Invoked and subverted in Lightning. A Serial Rapist targets devoutly pro-life Catholic women and keeps re-attacking them in a deliberate effort to get them pregnant and force them to change their minds about abortion. Lady, Lady, I Did It! has a subplot about a teenaged girl who was impregnated by a rapist and then died from the effects of an illegal abortion.
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87th Precinct / int_87629455	type	No Communities Were Harmed
87th Precinct / int_87629455	comment	No Communities Were Harmed: The novels are set in "Isola", a district of an unnamed, fictional city in an unnamed state which, as mentioned above, closely resembles New York at its scuzziest. Isola includes many features of Manhattan, and the other districts mentioned are clear expies for New York City's other four boroughs. More specifically, according to The Other Wiki, "Calm's Point" is Brooklyn, "Majesta" is Queens, "Riverhead" is the Bronx, and "Bethtown" Staten Island. Then there's the Harb (Hudson) and Dix (East) Rivers, and the similarly unnamed "next state" (New Jersey). George M. Dove's unofficial 1985 companion to the series, The Boys from Grover Avenue, analyzes the geography of McBain's "Imaginary City" and describes it as NYC shifted to the side, so that north becomes east, east south, etc. Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently McBain's universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States. The film adaptations of Cop Hater (1958) and The Pusher (1960) are explicitly set in NYC. Meanwhile, the film of Fuzz (1972) is set in Boston for some reason, and the film of Blood Relatives (1978), being a French-Canadian co-production, is set in Montreal!
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87th Precinct / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
87th Precinct / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Kling must protect Cindy Forrest from one in Eighty Million Eyes.
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87th Precinct / int_8cd3d091	type	Repetitive Name
87th Precinct / int_8cd3d091	comment	Repetitive Name: Meyer Meyer.
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87th Precinct / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
87th Precinct / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The victims in Fiddlers become less sympathetic when you discover just what rotten people they were, and what they did to Charlie to make him so deranged. Michelle, the main victim in Romance, is a whiny, spoiled diva who gets her boyfriend / agent to stab her for attention and is later stabbed for real. Gregory Craig in Ghosts is one as well; he blamed his wife for his penultimate novel being slated by critics, dumped her for a younger woman who claims to be a psychic, and was killed by the man whose story he basically stole for the basis of his final, hugely successful book. The author's lover later declares through her powers that he killed his wife - she drowned, but she was an excellent swimmer. It's never proven... but her powers are real. The blackmailer in Killer's Payoff. Some of the victims of Ten Plus One were once involved in a rape, although many innocents are killed with them.
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87th Precinct / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
87th Precinct / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: In Blood Relatives, a man is suspected of murdering his cousin, to whom he is engaged. The culprit turns out to be the man's sister.
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87th Precinct / int_90c70630	type	Fatal Method Acting
87th Precinct / int_90c70630	comment	Fatal Method Acting: In-universe in Eighty Million Eyes, where a famous comedian is murdered on live television in front of forty million witnesses.
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87th Precinct / int_926c5119	type	Detective Patsy
87th Precinct / int_926c5119	comment	Detective Patsy: Happens to inexperienced patrolman Bert Kling in The Mugger. Bert gets a promotion to Detective after that.
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87th Precinct / int_94332264	type	Busman's Holiday
87th Precinct / int_94332264	comment	Busman's Holiday: "Storm", from The Empty Hours, has Cotton Hawes investigating a murder while on vacation at a ski resort.
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87th Precinct / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
87th Precinct / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction
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87th Precinct / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
87th Precinct / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Several in the fourth book of the series.
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87th Precinct / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
87th Precinct / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: Cop Hater, Bread, and Heat all take place in hotter than usual periods of time.
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87th Precinct / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
87th Precinct / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Later books in the series frequently reference events or characters from earlier ones.
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87th Precinct / int_9e31f0b1	type	One-Letter Title
87th Precinct / int_9e31f0b1	comment	One-Letter Title: "J" in The Empty Hours.
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87th Precinct / int_9f46ebc4	type	Just Got Out of Jail
87th Precinct / int_9f46ebc4	comment	Just Got Out of Jail: Subplot of Heat, where a recently released prison inmate is out for revenge on the man who arrested him - Bert Kling.
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87th Precinct / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
87th Precinct / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: 'Til Death, in which the wedding day of Carella's sister is marred by someone targeting her husband-to-be. So Long as You Both Shall Live, in which Bert Kling's wife Augusta is kidnapped after the actual wedding by a Stalker with a Crush who wants to have sex with her and then kill her. And then himself.
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87th Precinct / int_a3eea2ea	type	Cop Killer
87th Precinct / int_a3eea2ea	comment	Cop Killer: In Cop Hater, the first novel, a murderer kills three policemen; as it turns out at the end, the third was the true target, and he only killed the first two to mislead the police into thinking that he's a Serial Killer who targets cops.
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87th Precinct / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
87th Precinct / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: Mike Ingersoll in Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man.
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87th Precinct / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
87th Precinct / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The murderer who is the protagonist of He Who Hesitates. Karma Houdini Warranty Said murderer ends up confessing in Shotgun and does get charged and presumably convicted. Karma caught up to him. And the Deaf Man, who remains at large at the end of Hark!, the final book in which he appears. Several of the Deaf Man's accomplices also get away clean, including a man who helps him blow up several cop cars as a diversion and two of the people who helped him start a violent race riot at a concert meant to promote inclusiveness. Emma from Ice is a remorseless career criminal multiple-murderer who just doesn't happen to be the murderer of the book and gets off scot free at the end. Detectives Brock and Mastersen in Ten Plus One, who beat and railroad an innocent man into prison out of pure meanness and get away with it due to the 87th Precincit detectives never finding out.
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87th Precinct / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
87th Precinct / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: The Deaf Man.
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87th Precinct / int_a9ee4fee	type	Secret Diary
87th Precinct / int_a9ee4fee	comment	Secret Diary: There's one belonging to the victim in Blood Relatives.
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87th Precinct / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
87th Precinct / int_aa07ca54	comment	Obfuscating Disability: While the Deaf Man wears a hearing aid, it's suggested on various occasions (including by the Deaf Man himself, in The Heckler) that it may just be a prop. Elmer Wollender in "Storm", from The Empty Hours.
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87th Precinct / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
87th Precinct / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: Crime still plagues the squad in 'til Death and So Long As You Both Shall Live.
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87th Precinct / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
87th Precinct / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: Eight Black Horses picks up straight after where Lightning left off.
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87th Precinct / int_b57a1db3	type	Cold Snap
87th Precinct / int_b57a1db3	comment	Cold Snap: Fuzz takes place when the city is in the middle of a freeze of sorts.
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87th Precinct / int_b6c2e6ad	type	Villain Episode
87th Precinct / int_b6c2e6ad	comment	Villain Episode: He Who Hesitates is told entirely from the killer's point of view.
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87th Precinct / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
87th Precinct / int_bb7ae292	comment	Lady, Lady, I Did It! has a subplot about a teenaged girl who was impregnated by a rapist and then died from the effects of an illegal abortion.
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87th Precinct / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
87th Precinct / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Emma is Brother Anthony's in Ice. And vice versa, as the novel's killer ultimately finds out when he murders Anthony... Don't even think about insulting or mistreating Teddy Carella. Steve will tear you a new one. As a father of a teenage daughter, Meyer absolutely hates paedophiles and has to be cautioned by Carella in Lullaby when dealing with the father of the murdered baby, who was having an affair with the other murder victim - the 15 year old sitter. And in Lady, Lady, I Did It!, when Carella, Brown and Kling go to arrest the killer, Kling loses all control and beats him half to death, because one of his victims was Kling's girlfriend Claire Townsend. In Killer's Choice, the normally patient Meyer loses it when the owner of the liquor stone Annie Stone was shot dead in is visibly more concerned about the four thousand dollars' worth of booze that was destroyed in the process.
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87th Precinct / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
87th Precinct / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Richard Genero is one of the least lucky and insightful of the detectives and moments where he shows up are rarely serious ones.
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87th Precinct / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
87th Precinct / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Steve and Teddy Carella, and Meyer and Sarah Meyer both have stable relationships throughout the series with both mutual trust and the ability to have fun together.
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87th Precinct / int_bf3a6bab	type	Insists on Paying
87th Precinct / int_bf3a6bab	comment	Insists on Paying: Steve Carella (and, by extension, every honest cop).
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87th Precinct / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
87th Precinct / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: One was unsuccessfully interrupted in Like Love.
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87th Precinct / int_c2339e22	type	Identifying the Body
87th Precinct / int_c2339e22	comment	Identifying the Body: In Tricks, a stage magician's decapitated body is found and his wife identifies him by some scars on the body. They actually had faked his death and the body is that of his assistant. A victim's mother did so in Shotgun, with a similar outcome.
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87th Precinct / int_c895f927	type	Criminal Mind Games
87th Precinct / int_c895f927	comment	Criminal Mind Games: Most noticeable with the Deaf Man who increasingly targeted his plans or modified them to specifically antagonize the 87th Precinct detectives, even to the point of causing his own plans to fail.
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87th Precinct / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
87th Precinct / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Both Meyer Meyer and The Deaf Man admit to hating Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, the screenplay for which was written by... Evan Hunter.
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87th Precinct / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
87th Precinct / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: Roger Havilland in Killer's Choice, Frankie Hernandez in See Them Die, Claire Townsend in Lady, Lady, I Did It!.
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87th Precinct / int_cfbd1467	type	Never Suicide
87th Precinct / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: Shotgun, although the detectives see through it straight away.
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87th Precinct / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
87th Precinct / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Eileen Burke, so very much. She becomes a cop after her father and uncle, both policemen, are murdered, and dreams of avenging her uncle's death. She is raped and slashed in one book and suffers PTSD as a result, and it gets worse after the events of Tricks, when she shoots a man who was killing and mutilating prostitutes, after he tried to kill her.
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87th Precinct / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
87th Precinct / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Cotton Hawes often has well-timed bursts of realisation.
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87th Precinct / int_d143edf2	comment	Everybody Did It: Killer's Payoff comes to a climax with Hawes setting a Bluffing the Murderer trap for three suspects to see which one shows up. All three do.
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87th Precinct / int_d83a7229	comment	"Number of Objects" Title: Eight Black Horses.
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87th Precinct / int_dc3b74bc	comment	Pointy-Haired Boss: Captain Frick. The best thing that could be said about his leadership is that he realizes his own incompetence and most of the time just doesn't do anything.
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87th Precinct / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
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87th Precinct / int_de10dda2	type	Caught on Tape
87th Precinct / int_de10dda2	comment	Caught on Tape: Crucial evidence in Doll and Bread.
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87th Precinct / int_e5467735	comment	Oddly enough, New York itself is occasionally mentioned in the books. Apparently McBain's universe has two huge and virtually-interchangeable metropolises co-existing very close to one another on the East Coast of the United States.
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87th Precinct / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: Usually at the end, in the form of a transcript of the culprit's confession explaining various details that have been puzzling the detectives.
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87th Precinct / int_e7117c09	comment	In the Back Story of Ax, an accountant found out one client was a tax cheat and tried to blackmail him. The client told his Italian-American boss, who attempted to Scare 'Em Straight by claiming to be mob-connected and saying he'd kill the accountant if he tried anything again. The accountant was scared, but still blackmailed another client. To avoid his boss's wrath, he enlisted an accomplice (the Victim of the Week) to meet the blackmail victim and claim to have found the incriminating papers during a burglary. This whole subplot is a Red Herring, as the blackmail victim died of natural causes years ago and the accountant isn't the killer either.
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87th Precinct / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
87th Precinct / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: Roger Havilland. While never portrayed as an antagonist (just The Friend Nobody Likes) he beats up suspects on occasion and after his death it's confirmed that he was taking bribes to protect a gambling ring.
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87th Precinct / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: McBain's final Matthew Hope novel, The Last Best Hope, has that character teaming with Steve Carella on a case.
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87th Precinct / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
87th Precinct / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: Roger Havilland and Andy Parker are rude, insensitive men who drag down the people around them.
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87th Precinct / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: Sometimes people other than the main cast catch the villains while having little idea of what's going on. In The Heckler, an unnamed beat cop foils the villains' getaway by approaching a fake ice cream truck to make an order, then noticing a discrepancy in the crooks' story and making inquiries that cause them to try and shoot their way out, only for him to wound both men and capture one of them. In Ghosts, right after a scene that discusses how Carella and Hawes both see themselves as the hero and the other man as the Sidekick, the killer is arrested by a beat cop who mistakenly thinks the killer just robbed a pawnshop (really, he's fleeing the pawnshop because the owner realized he was trying to sell stolen property). Said beat cop gets promoted to protagonist as a result of the case, being promoted to detective and working with the leads in a few of the remaining books, but he's never seen or mentioned before arresting the killer.
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87th Precinct / int_edc22fe8	comment	Cartwright Curse: Bert Kling. The poor guy just can't catch a break. All of his girlfriends either end up dying, having too many issues to cope with a relationship, going off with another man, or just getting fed up with him and leaving.
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87th Precinct / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
87th Precinct / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: Played straight and subverted in a subplot of Let's Hear it for the Deaf Man. Two of the bikers in it are drug-using rapists who torture the rape victim's artist boyfriend, fatally crucify one of their own friends for trying to stop them and put up a fight when the police come to arrest them. On the flip side, said crucified friend is described as a Nice Guy who just liked traveling around on his bike and was interested in carrying around art to sell across the region.
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87th Precinct / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
87th Precinct / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series: He Who Hesitates is the only novel in the series told from the villain's POV.
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87th Precinct / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
87th Precinct / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: The officers on duty in Ten Plus One when a hot blonde actress – and potential victim of the book's villain, a sniper – arrives at the station. She does not get killed, by the way. In Tricks, the principal of a high school where Sebastian the Great and his sexy assistant Marie are performing sees most of the male students can't keep their eyes off her, and while he's supposed to be watching the students "he himself was having a little difficulty (taking his eyes off her), to the extent that when Marie takes her leave the principal thinks "Shit." Then again, how was he to know she's part of a murder plot involving Sebastian and his male protege?
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87th Precinct / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
87th Precinct / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Andy Parker for Roger Havilland. After Havilland's death, Parker fills the role of a large, brutal, racist jerkass cop. Even his backstory is similar to Havilland's.
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87th Precinct / int_f70710ae	comment	Blackmail Backfire: In the Back Story of Ax, an accountant found out one client was a tax cheat and tried to blackmail him. The client told his Italian-American boss, who attempted to Scare 'Em Straight by claiming to be mob-connected and saying he'd kill the accountant if he tried anything again. The accountant was scared, but still blackmailed another client. To avoid his boss's wrath, he enlisted an accomplice (the Victim of the Week) to meet the blackmail victim and claim to have found the incriminating papers during a burglary. This whole subplot is a Red Herring, as the blackmail victim died of natural causes years ago and the accountant isn't the killer either. In Long Time No See, the blind and impoverished first victim is killed for trying to blackmail a war buddy over an Unfriendly Fire incident after crossing the Despair Event Horizon.
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87th Precinct / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: Ghosts. And as Carella finds out first hand, it's for real.
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87th Precinct / int_f97df10b	type	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
87th Precinct / int_f97df10b	comment	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): In Tricks, a liquor store owner whom the squad warns about a group of murderous thieves brags about how he's gunned down many such robbers in the past. A few pages later, the current gang of robbers kill him before he can get a shot off.
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87th Precinct / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
87th Precinct / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Andrew Leyden in Shotgun.
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87th Precinct / int_f9a801de	type	Unintentionally Notorious Crime
87th Precinct / int_f9a801de	comment	Unintentionally Notorious Crime: In Lady, Lady, I Did It, a shooter opens fire in a store and guns down four people. One of them happens to be Detective Bert Kling's fiancee, thereby guaranteeing that the crime has the attention of every cop in the city.
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87th Precinct / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
87th Precinct / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Meyer's long, wonderfully orchestrated story about a cat thief in The Mugger.
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