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Homicide
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MSRP: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Additional Homicide Information
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Edgar and Anthony Award Winner Selected by the Literary Guild "Remarkable...A true crime classic." ASSOCIATED PRESS Enter the workday of real policemen. Follow fifteen detectives, three sergeants, and a lieutenant, whose job it is to investigate Baltimore's 234 murders. You will get a cop's-eye-view of the bureaucracy, the highs of success, the moments of despair, and the non-stop rush of pursuits, anger, banter, and violence that make up a cop's life. Now an acclaimed television series, this extraordinary book is the insider's look at what you have always wondered about.
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What Customers Say About Homicide:
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The print edition of 'Homicide' has a 8-page set of black and white photos in the middle:1) 6 portraits of detectives that appear in the book.2) below them 6 pictures of the characters they inspired in the TV series. 3) and three more: 2 detectives at a crime scene, David Simon at the pub with the guys, The Board.These pictures are gone from the Kindle edition. Whereas this is a rather minor loss, you are not missing anything essential from the reading experience, something has been subtracted from one edition nevertheless. So you've been warned.
They are all likeable types with some quirkiness. Given the hype, I expected to like this book more than I did. As the author was "embedded" with the detectives there is little balance in his reportage of them. Perhaps I might have enjoyed the book more had I read it when it was first published in 1991. Reading it now, I found its style to be a bit dated.
I was very familar with this book as I am a former member of the Baltimore homicide unit. I did not have a chance in the past to read it, but now that I am retired I read it and thoroughly enjoyed it. I know most of the homicide members that are mentioned in the unit and some of them worked in my squad when I was there. It certainly depicts what goes on daily in the Baltimore homicide unit.
The author develops this plot so slowly that I'm amazed he is a journalist by profession. Perhaps that's a refelction of why journalism today is so lousy. I found the development of the plot and the writing of the book so cumbersome that I've put it down and read other books three times. Oh I'll finish it on some night when I've read and reread all other books in the house.
Thanks for sending my book in a timely matter. I will order from this person again.
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