Reprint from Inksome: And so much for the Yiddish Policemen's Union

[kayshapero]

I give up - The Yiddish Policemen's Union is going back to the library half read tomorrow.  Interesting, if ose, background, the old "determined detective bulls through to the TRUTH" plot... and I find myself putting the thing down every chapter to find something, anything more cheerful.  Today I hit the last straw, as Our Hero did something so mindblowingly dumb that I found myself considering the Eight Deadly Words*.  Someone with more tolerance for gritty street-level realism in an alternate universe may well enjoy it - in fact a number of someones must've or it'd hardly have won the Hugo... but I think I'm getting on with the rest of the stack.

*"I Don't Care What Happens To These People."