Author: edmcbain

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They’re not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called Report to the Commissioner, it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather … slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie’s responding to the squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back…