Cop Hater Author:Ed McBain Shot in the Dark. Swift, silent, and deadly--knocking off the 87th Precinct's finest, one by one. The Why and the Who were the precinct's big headaches. When Detective Reardon was found dead, the motive was a big question mark. But when his partner became victim number 52o, it looke like open and shut grudge killings. That is, until detective ... more »number three bought it. If Detective Steve Carella didn't take a shot in the dark about who might be at the delivering end of those bullets, he could very well become number 4.« less