The Twenty-Seventh City
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 15, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780374525057
First sentence: In early June Chief William O'Connell of the St. Louis Police Department announced his retirement, and the Board of Police Commissioners, passing over the favored candidates of the city political establishment, the black community, the press, the Officers Association and the Missouri governor, selected a woman, formerly with the police in Bombay, India, to begin a five-year term as chief.