The Bookkeeper

Thanks, Sergeant Klein. What do you mean you were wrong? Yeah, right? So where did this happen? Where? Did he have a gun? There were two men. When was it, just now? You are in the must of room at the 21st Precinct, the nerve center.

Where they went? A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st Precinct. Why are you calling?

Well, on what floor is that? You take the elevator back downstairs. The officers will be right there. They'll be right there. You're just wait. Yes, my 21st precinct. It's just lines on the map of the city of New York.

Most of 173,000 people wed into the 9th and 10th of the square mile between Fifth Avenue and East River wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their persons, their homes and their property is my job.

My job and the job of the 160th of Coleman, 11 Sergeant and 4 Lieutenant of Umined the Boss. My name is Canelli, Frank Canelli. I'm Captain in Command of the 21st. What makes the city? People make a city. As of the 21st.

From time in the way you'd least expect, I was working my 8am to 60m tour. It had started to rain during the night and it was still raining at 1.15pm when I came out of the luncheon meeting of the Lennox Hill Lions Club, at which I spoke on the problems of juvenile delinquency.

From the lobby of the hotel I rang in. Sergeant Klein on T.S. told me everything was quiet. I instructed him to send a car for me. When it came I had the operator, Patoman Fowl, drive me to the New Year of Theater, a movie house on First Avenue.