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Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991)

David Simon
Reviewed by L.S. Klepp | Oct 30, 1992
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Writer: David Simon; Genres: Crime, Nonfiction; Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Reporter David Simon spent a year tagging along with 18 detectives as they investigated about half of Baltimore's 234 murders. From the blood on the street to the repartee in the squad room, from autopsy etiquette to office politics, Simon gives us the homicide cop's beat as it has never been seen before in Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. A-

Originally posted Oct 30, 1992 Published in issue #142 Oct 30, 1992 Order article reprints
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