Where There's Smoke (87th Precinct Benjamin Smoke intro)

5.75"x8.5" 184. Maroon boards w/Yellow letters on spine. DJ design by John Cayea. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Faint edge and shelf wear to DJ w/soft toning. Faint foxing to edges. Secure ship w/track #. Bid welcome to a memorable new McBain hero - Benjamin Smoke, an unlicensed private investigator with a very special preoccupation. smoke quit the police force three years ago with a gold detective-lieutenant's shield and a well-earned reputation as a no-nonsense cop. In twenty-four years he saw muggings, robberies, rapes, frauds, and murders, but there was one thing he never saw: the perfect crime. And that's why he quit the force: boredom. Benjamin Smoke wants a case he can't solve, a crime so perfectly conceived and executed, he'll know for sure that somewhere out there, there really is a master criminal. That is why, on Monday morning, he meets Abner Boone, undertaker.