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...what's inside this?" asked an Iranian police inspector, indicating the package. "Oh, it's just some nougat that I wanted to send my brother," said the man casually. "All right," said the policeman, "let's take it to my office, and we'll eat it together." At headquarters the police opened the package. It contained three pounds of heroin wrapped for delivery to a dope pusher in New York City...
...younger days of dedicating her life to something rare and wonderful. But just when she was getting the hang of Kafka and the tang of Joyce, she married Harold, a chartered accountant who regarded life as a sort of income-tax return and his Creator as an Inspector of Internal Revenue. The Inspector, as Harold sees Him, is not a Kafka type. He expects a human being's accounts to be extremely businesslike, and not entirely dishonest. If the main items - church at tendance, Rotary, propriety - are in order, the Inspector is sport enough not to query the "fiddles...
Harold and Isabel have two children (the Inspector insists on this) and are toying with having a third when their income can stand it. Their home is a neat little villa in a neat little town beside the ocean - not the roaring, boisterous ocean, of course, but the tidy English Channel with its concrete esplanades...
DEAD STORAGE, by George Bagby (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.75), describes in repellent detail the last hours of a prosperous pimp, and introduces as ugly a set of murder suspects as the season has offered. The case is tackled by Inspector Schmidt of New York Homicide, whose homey habit of taking off his pinching shoes in moments of stress somehow makes the sordid details of the crime seem more wholesome...
...basement, accumulating good tools (he values his layout at $4,000) and turning out inlaid wastebaskets and other knickknacks for his friends and family. Over the years he has established a pleasant puttering partnership with his next-door neighbor and longtime friend, Ralph Davis, a lighting company inspector. Davis plays an Art Carney support to Hall's Jackie Gleason, and their weekend rituals usually follow the same pattern. On Saturday mornings, until recently, Hall would get up around 5 a.m. and look over at Davis' house to see if the kitchen light was on. If he decided...