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A paperback edition originally published by Penguin in 1963. This is a later, 1978, printing. In good condition for its age. Covers are lightly scuffed at extremities. Pages are quite heavily tanned but the book remains eminently readable. An 87th Precinct novel. “Hernandez’s face wasn’t blue with cold. He was a pusher, or had been. A rope round his neck and a syringe showed that. Detective Kling, promoted off the beat, helped Steve Carella – more than Hernandez’s sister anyhow. She was a prostitute in a self-service vice dive (she spilt nothing . . . except her own blood, and that later.) In the face of an unholy complication, Carella got himself right across the dope route and right on to the hospital danger list.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH