Word: loads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inhaled carbon monoxide, in smokers and nonsmokers alike, enters the bloodstream through the inner surface of the lungs, competing with oxygen in the process. The result is that the hemoglobin of the red blood cells carries less oxygen than normal, plus a load of the poisonous carboxyhemo-globin. Cigar smoke presents a hazard similar to that from cigarettes...
...CASE LOAD-MAXIMUM...
...Street, his first, won an "Edgar" from the Mystery Writers of America as the best first mystery of 1968. His second, Mongo's Back in Town, was bought for $25,000 and turned into a TV movie that was shown last November. Like Johnson's others, Case Load-Maximum amply displays his ability to thread a meticulous plot line through the grit and slime of an urban netherworld where everyone has an angle too sharp for his own good...
...individuality, totally unable to be more or less than they are. Silver Street's Tony Lonto, for instance, cannot help being a good cop any more than he can keep from making a futile effort to steer a young prostitute into a respectable job as a waitress. Case Load's Detective Mose Hamilton sees only punks in the world he polices, and the sour vision inevitably makes him a mean...
...Case Load, the climax-and a neat one it is-comes when Detective Hamilton, desperate to solve a case. frames and murders a suspect he had concluded was innocent. The victim is actually guilty, and Hamilton gets away with the crime. But Author-Convict Johnson knows that that is an unimportant detail. Whether Hamilton actually goes to prison for his crime matters only to society. For each man, there is prison enough in himself...