"The city in these pages is imaginary"

"The city in these pages is imaginary. The people, the places are all fictitious. Only the police routine is based on established investigatory technique."

 Crime fiction afficionados have recognized the beginning of every novel from Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. I quoted it before. I always get excited reading this intro, every time I do it feels like the first time. It struck me, reading the post I wrote last Friday, that I have not read a McBain novel for quite a long while (last year in June if I'm not mistaken) and that I miss the detectives from the 87th. So I ordered two of them and I should read them soon.