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Late one night, off McPherson Avenue in St. Louis, a man with sports shirttails at half-mast, strolled casually through a dark alley. He was a perfect target for a mugger. A tall hoodlum with a heavy club appeared, and with one whack, sent the man reeling. As the victim struggled to his knees, the assailant swung back to strike again, stopped when he saw the fallen man draw a revolver. "I'm a policeman!" cried the victim. "Drop that club!" The mugger stared for a moment in astonishment, then turned and ran. The cop, Otto Hirsch, fired once...
From Meters to Car Boosts. Inevitably, the manufactured crime wave engulfed the police department. Both the News-Call Bulletin and the Chronicle blasted departmental indifference ("These citizens want action," shrilled the Chronicle, "not explanations"). The Examiner printed a singularly unjust cartoon of a mugger escaping under the very nose of a motorcycle cop-who was too busy writing a parking ticket to notice. And all three papers printed statistics to prove that since Jan. 1 crime in San Francisco was up 13% over last year...
...Wants to Sleep (Film Polski; Edward Harrison) begins in a dark alley; a man is clubbed to the pavement and his briefcase stolen. So far, so bloody; then the thief walks a few steps down the alley, a gas pipe thuds musically on a skull, and the mugger himself lies mugged. The new thief happily examines the briefcase-until a knife glints in the uncertain light. He gives the loot to the latest blackguard, when suddenly...
...BLACK AND THE RED, by Elliot Paul (277 pp.; Random House; $2.75), is a Homer Evans mystery by the author of The Mysterious Mickey Finn and Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre. It is for longtime Elliot Paul fans only; latecomers who are merely looking for a story are likely to bog down in the aggressive whimsy and the interminable dissertations on art, sex and French cooking...
Yale men need no yonger pad the streets of defenseless, helpless prey to any passing mugger...