The Twenty-seventh City
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: May 5, 2003
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781841157481
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
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.