The Books

They are until they talk to them. Yeah, I'm sending them right now. Okay. Twenty-first precinct. It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people were waged into the 910th of the square mile between Fifth Avenue and the 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 homes, their persons and their property is the job of the men of the 21st precinct.

The 21st, 160th patrolman, 11th sergeant and four lieutenant of whom I am the boss. My name is Crowman Vincent P. Crowman. I am Captain and Commander of the 21st Precinct. I have been doing day duty and at 6 p.m. I signed the blotter to go off the job, not scheduled to return until 4 p.m. the following day.

The best officer, Lieutenant Harry Snyder, was in charge of the patrol force of the precinct. As opposed to the patrol force, whose essential duty is the prevention of crime, detectives are responsible for the investigation of crime.

In the 21st, 18 detectives worked out of the squad room on the second floor under the command of Lieutenant Matt King. City, while Detective Dan Goldman, out of this desk, talking to one complainant, two others in different cases waited their turn on the bench.

All the other detectives on duty were out on patrol or investigations, I had a tenet king was busy in his room with paperwork that always plagued the superior officer of it. You spell that E.L. or Ellie?

Ellie. Now, exactly where was the suitcase when you last saw it? Well, I sat down in the restaurant, you know, in one of those booths, and I put it right alongside of me, and I thought it would be perfectly all right there.