2004 Simon & Schuster hardcover, with dust jacket, of the 87th Precinct cop thriller. I found this copy today in the Picardy Little Free Library.

I can let this go after I read:
1953 Cut Me In [read 2019]
1954 The Blackboard Jungle [read 2012]
1956 The Last Spin (short story) [read 2012]
1956 Second Ending [n/a]
1956 Cop Hater [read 2012]
1956 The Mugger [read 2015]
1956 The Pusher [n/a]
1957 The Con Man [read 2018]
1957 Killer's Choice [read 2015]
1957 Vanishing Ladies [read 2021]
1958 The Gutter and the Grave (Hard Case Crime 15) [read 2019]
1958 Strangers When We Meet [read 2019]
1958 Killer's Payoff [n/a]
1958 Killer's Wedge [read 2019]
1958 Lady Killer [read 2019]
1959 A Matter of Conviction [n/a]
1959 'Til Death [n/a]
1959 King's Ransom [read 2019]
1960 Give the Boys a Great Big Hand [read 2019]
1960 The Heckler [read 2019]
1960 See Them Die [n/a]
1961 Mothers and Daughters [n/a]
1961 Lady, Lady, I Did It! [read 2019]
1962 The Empty Hours [read 2020]
1962 Like Love [n/a]
1963 Ten Plus One [n/a]
1964 Buddwing [n/a]
1964 Ax [n/a]
1965 He Who Hesitates [read 2020]
1965 Doll [read 2015]
1965 The Sentries [read 2020]
1965 The Birthday Party (short story in Playboy) [read 2020]
1966 The Paper Dragon [read 2020]
1966 Eighty Million Eyes [n/a]
1967 A Horse's Head [n/a]
1967 The Sharers (short story in Playboy) [read 2020]
1968 Last Summer [n/a]
1968 Fuzz [n/a]
1969 Sons [n/a]
1969 Shotgun [n/a]
1970 Jigsaw [n/a]
1971 Nobody Knew They Were There [n/a]
1971 Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here [n/a]
1972 Every Little Crook and Nanny [n/a]
1972 Sadie When She Died [n/a]
1972 Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man [n/a]
1973 Come Winter [n/a]
1973 Hail to the Chief [read 2021]
1974 Streets of Gold [n/a]
1974 Bread [n/a]
1974 The Analyst (short story in Playboy) [read 2021]
1975 Blood Relatives [n/a]
1975 Where There's Smoke [n/a]
1975 Doors [n/a]
1976 The Chisolms [n/a]
1976 So Long As You Both Shall Live [read 2021]
1976 Guns [n/a]
1977 Long Time No See [n/a]
1978 Goldilocks [n/a]
1979 Calypso [n/a]
1980 Ghosts [n/a]
1981 Heat [n/a]
1981 Rumpelstiltskin [n/a]
1985 Snow White & Red Rose [read 2021]
1988 The House that Jack Built [read 2021]
1990 Vespers [read 2022]
1992 Kiss [read 2022]
1994 There Was a Little Girl [read 2022]
1994 Criminal Conversation [read 2022]
1995 Romance [read 2023]
1996 Privileged Conversation [read 2022]
1997 Nocturne [read 2022]
2001 Candyland [read 2023]
2004 Hark! [read 2023]

Edit May 23, 2023: This was good, but I just skimmed to end for time. I currently have this ranked at #1352 on my ranked list of best-read books lately.

... in the box.

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