The Twenty-seventh City
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: January 11, 1991
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780330307383
Subjects: Adventure / thriller
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.