Lady, Lady, I Did It!

Three persons were already dead, a fourth lay dying.Carella raised his head. His eyes were dead. "This is a lousy, rotten job," he said."All right, it's--" Byrnes said."I don't want it," Carella said, his voice rising. "I want to go home and touch my kids and not have blood on my hands.""Everybody does! Snap out of it!""Snap out of what? Of seeing that poor damn girl lying twisted and broken and bleeding on the floor? Of Kling holding her in his arms, covered with blood, saying her name over and over again--'Claire'? As if he was asking me to deny it, to tell him that this ... dead person he held in his arms wasn't his girl!"Watch the compelling television series based on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct novels each week on NBC-TV.Simon & Schuster edition published December, 1961.Permabook edition published September, 1962.1st printing ...... July, 1962.