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Hometown:: Baltimore, MD

About Me:: A reader, writer, and a fan of all types of detective noir who works in law enforcement.

"You go when you're supposed to go and everything else is homicide."
-ME

"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness."
- Raymond Chandler

I Am A:: Reader, Writer

Books And Authors I Like:: Raymond Chandler
Ed McBain
John Burdett
Dashiell Hammett

Movies And TV Shows I Like:: The First 48
Homicide:Life on the Streets
The Wire
Anything with Bogart
Any good heist movie...
Chinatown
LA Confidential
The Man Who Wasn't There
Seven
Fargo
Snatch
Lock Stock and Three Smoking Barrels
Brick
Double Indemnity
Young Frankenstein
Haven
And Justice For All
The Name of the Rose
The Machinist
Lawrence of Arabia
Serpico
The Blues Brothers

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PART 5

GIRDLES and FAT LADIES (updated)

The internal affairs investigator came out to the waiting area and brought

me back to his desk. He was short and heavyset, almost dumpy looking.

He had a gut that was so huge he would have to take someone else's word

for

it to see if shoes were tied. I guess that was why he wore penny loafers. His plaid jacket was probably in style when he wore it for his

first… Continue

Posted on January 11, 2008 at 11:18am

PART 4

MICHAEL THE POLOCK

I sat and thought abou

t everything. About me, Michael Abromowicz. The

Polock cop. Probably destined to be a cop having been named after the

Patron Saint of police officers, Michael the Archangel. My mother,

Helena (God rest her soul) wanted to name me after Saint Stanislas, the

famous Jesuit and patron of Poland. But my… Continue

Posted on January 6, 2008 at 8:51am

PART 3

CHANDLER'S HIP POCKET

I sat in the Internal Affairs office with an old metal fan blowing from a

corner of the room. The IA office was in one of the older more run down

buildings that the police department had. I wondered if they did that

on purpose, for effect. No one liked coming here anyway. It was never

for anything good. It was like going to the vice principal's office

when you were a kid. But my… Continue

Posted on December 30, 2007 at 3:12pm

PART 2

GOLDFISH and DYNAMITE

I put my raid jacket on. It had POLICE in large letters on the back with police over the right breast and a detectives badge over the left. It

was designed so that we fulfilled the legal requirement of “displaying

the badge of authority” and to make people KNOW we were cops when we

served warrants. Rob and I didn’t need… Continue

Posted on December 29, 2007 at 12:22am — 2 Comments

PART 1

It was a hot and humid summer morning. The kind of morning that made your shirt feel more like contact paper. We had tracked him to a small apartment building in the middle of the city. It was early, the twilight time for gangstas, addicts and killers. Real people were just waking up. But those who lived in the alternate universe, this neighborhood, were just ending their day. You could walk through this area of the city at noon and find almost no one… Continue

Posted on December 28, 2007 at 3:43pm — 2 Comments

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At 1:16am on December 18, 2008, JackBludis said…: The Ravens was robbed. But hell, 4th and 3 inches, they would have clicked off a few more seconds. Shame about the sack of Flacco. If he had seen him coming, he would have made ten yards around the right side.

At 4:35am on January 11, 2008, Harding Young said…: Love your page. Great shots of (I assume) Baltimore. And the name is perfect... like you speak for the dead from the killing streets.