Another Part of the City

Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Leaves age-tanned. Dust jacket slightly browned to edges of lower flap. INSCRIBED by author to half-title: ‘To Tim -, Best wishes, Ed McBain’. *** Another part of the city indeed: not a 87th Precinct Mystery, but the first and only Fifth Precinct novel. ‘Homicides were rare in the Fifth Precinct, but there was always the exception.’