Killer’s Wedge (87th Precinct #7) - Ed McBain

Category: Detective, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 87th Precinct
Written by Ed McBain
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Squadroom 87th Precinct. Four cops getting through a routine day. Complaints, interrogations, reports–holdups, beatings, rapes, murders.
Then in walks a dame in black.
“Yes?” asks Detective Cotton Hawes.
She reaches into her coat pocket and pulls out a cold, hard object.
“This is a .38,” she says and points it at the four men. “Give me your guns.”
“Look, lady,” says Hawes, “put up the piece. The joke’s not funny.”
The dame’s eyes narrow to slits. “Shut up, copper. I’ve come here to kill. One phony move and I keep shooting until every man in this place is dead.