Charter, New York, 1980, 1st pr. thus.  ISBN 0-441-44390-7.  MMPB 212 pages followed by ads.  A bit of blue transfer onto white wraps; tight binding; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages; gently read if at all.  ‘Winston, New York.  A small town, everything neat.  And as with small towns everywhere, Winston balanced carefully:  its police, its unions, its corrupters – each in place, limits known, territories respected.  At the center, Tim Smith, the town’s only Private Eye, and his little black book keeping everyone honest.  Winston, New York is, then, a fine place to live.  Until the State sends in an anticorruption investigator.  Then comes killing time.’ (from rear wrap)