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I want to be dead certain, when that routine says there’s no way to track the murderer down that there is no way! I want to know that. I don’t want to go to my grave with the idea that they could have found the killer, but they didn’t look, that Malcolm, after all, even though he was a great surgeon, was just another dead black man!” FIRST APPEARANCE!!!

I want to be dead certain, when that routine says there’s no way to track the murderer down that there is no way! I want to know that. I don’t want to go to my grave with the idea that they could have found the killer, but they didn’t look, that Malcolm, after all, even though he was a great surgeon, was just another dead black man!”

This fourth in the series doesn’t waste any time in getting to the first murder. A Doctor Who works with VI‘s friend Lottie. He is killed by apparent gang violence, but Lottie asks VI to pay special attention to this one. We also have a pregnant poor teenager Whose baby had died being born prematurely in those years before those tiny babies were saved by new technology.

“You look very sharp, Vic, very professional,” Max told me. I was wearing a trouser suit in wheat-colored linen with a dark-green cotton shirt. The jacket was loose, covering my gun, and I had on low-heeled shoes. I wanted to be able to move quickly if I had to.

Ms. Warshawski, as an unparalleled thorn in the side of the police, with deductive capabilities well above the average, we would like you to be a private detective for twenty or thirty thousand a year, plus no health insurance, plus getting your face cut open and your apartment burglarized every now and then.

Lotty stared at me fiercely. “Well, to use your analogy, if one friend I loved was dying in this epidemic, I would treat him, even if I couldn’t stop the plague. And that’s what I’m asking on Malcolm’s behalf. Maybe you can’t solve the crime. Maybe the epidemic of gang violence is too big for anyone, even the state, to solve. But I am asking you, friend to friend, for a friend.”

Coulter was the kind of executive who follows the old adage that the desk, like the mind, should be completely blank.

"Americans have never been very understanding of poverty, but since Reagan was elected it's become a crime almost as bad as child-molesting."