The Black Marble

Review "Wambaugh sidesteps all the cliches....He has the ability to portray women as flesh-and-blood, thinking human beings." -- The Sun (Baltimore) "First-rate...fast, colorful, and gripping...As touching as it is breathlessly entertaining." -- Cosmopolitan -- Review Product Description He is a damned good cop -- a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner -- twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love. Joseph Wambaugh The tough ex-cop who writes the hard-hitting best sellers -- a master storyteller whose characters are as powerful and as passionate as his plots.