The Detectives: Their Toughest Cases in Their Own Words

In this informative collection of pieces on eight New York City detectives, the reader is given an insight into police work in a large city. Michaels, a psychologist at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital and the author of two books on the city's Fire Department, shows the wide range of activities that detectives can be involved in: his subjects serve in the Narcottics Division, in a Senior Citizens Robbery Unit, a Sex Crimes Unit, the Special Projects Unit (encompassing the Hostage Negotiating Team) and the Bomb Squad. The authenticity of the book, which includes numerous cases still unsolved, is resonant. Photos not seen by PW. (Apr.)