No place to be a cop
By: Frederick Nolan
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Linford mystery library; Linford mystery library
Publisher: Linford
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781846178696; 9781846178986
Subjects: Police; Fiction; History
Description: The place is Manhattan, in the year 1878. A million people live in her teeming streets. She boasts 6000 professional criminals, 5000 whores, and only 2000 policement and 28 detectives to investigate all the crimes committted. The New York Police Department deals with them all - from street-gang vendettas to sex murders and con men.
Notes: Originally published: as NYPD, no place to be a cop. London: Barker, 1974.