Killer's Wedge

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Her game was death and her name was Virginia Dodge.  She was out to put a bullet through Steve Carella's brain, and she didn't care if she had to kill all the boys in the 87th precinct to do it.

So Virginia, armed with gun and bottle of nitroglycerin, spent a quiet afternoon in the precinct house, terror ising Lieutenant Byrnes and his detectives with her clever little homemade bomb.

They all sat waiting there for Steve Carella.  Could all the men of the 87th, prisoners of one crazy broad, be powerless to save Carella from his rendezvous with death...?

In one of his most dazzling novels of the 87th Precinct, Ed McBain exposes the dangerous loyalties that both keep the boys of the 87th together, and threaten to tear them apart.

CHAPTER 1

The muted sounds of October, greeted the punch line of Meyer Meyer's joke on that Friday afternoon.

"He really knows how to tell them," Bert Kung said.

"That's the one thing I can't do.  Tell a story."

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