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 	Title:                  Vertical Coffin SS4
 	Author:                 Stephen J. Cannell
 	Read By:                Fred Major
 
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 	Number of MP3s:         7 plus PARS and info
 	File Naming:	     	Author - Title XXofYY.mp3	
 	Bit Rate:      		32 KB/s
	Sample Rate:		22 KHz mono
	Runtime:			09:22 h:m

Story
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From Publishers Weekly
The title of the latest entry in Cannell's Shane Scully LAPD series 
(Hollywood Tough; The Tin Collectors; The Viking Funeral) is police 
jargon for any doorway, which is where cops are most vulnerable when 
clearing a house. As the novel begins, Shane stumbles into a full-scale 
barricade shootout between gunman Vincent Smiley and surrounding police. 
After one of two competing SWAT teams at the scene burns down the barricaded 
house with Smiley in it, a fight over who is to blame begins to smolder. 
Several subsequent cop shootings (with all victims caught in the aforementioned 
vertical coffins) fan the SWAT team turf tussle into a conflagration 
that Shane and wife Alexa, the acting head of the LAPD Detective Services 
Group, are assigned to investigate. Shane, an old school detective, 
insists on starting from zero and looking into shooter Smiley's past. 
Everyone else wants him to forget the gumshoe routine and come up with 
an instant solution. The pleasure of Cannell's work isn't in the writing 
("Bullets whined and ricocheted in a deadly concert of tortured metal"), 
but lies more often in the interesting procedural elements ("It's very 
hard to protect a crime scene, so I always start at the far edges first, 
and work in toward the body"). Shane's still a little rough around the 
edges, but despite too many pop psychology musings, he's a dependable 
and satisfying character. Readers will enjoy watching him puzzle out 
the twists and turns of the plot and watch breathlessly as he undertakes 
a climactic high-speed chase in a souped-up dune buggy on a military 
shooting range.

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