The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist)
Publisher: Picador
Published: September 8, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780312420147
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Mystery & Detective - General; American Mystery & Suspense Fiction; Fiction; Fiction - General
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.