Cop Hater [SEP] series
Cop Hater
Cop Hater (1956) is the first 87th Precinct police procedural novel by Ed McBain. The murder of three detectives in quick succession in the 87th Precinct leads Detective Steve Carella on a search that takes him into the city's underworld and ultimately to a .45 automatic aimed straight at his head.
Written by Evan Hunter using the name Ed McBain, the book was inspired by a television show he greatly admired, "Dragnet". McBain chose to set his 87th Precinct series in the fictional city of Isola
"Tack" Fujiwara - The squad's only Japanese-American detective.
A number of other detectives are mentioned, or have smaller roles. In the first novel in the series, "Cop Hater", Carella is partnered with a detective called Bush. Bush's wife has hired someone to murder Bush, as well as two other officers who are not mentioned in the other novels.
Some of McBain's cop's names, including Meyer Meyer, Bert Kling and Roger Havilland, are seen in a duty roster