Fat Ollie’s Book

Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They’re not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel, ah yes. Called “Report to the Commissioner,” it follows a cunning detective named Olivia Wesley Watts, who, apart from being female and slim, is rather like Fat Ollie himself. While Ollie’s responding to the squeal about the dead councilman, his leather dispatch case is stolen from the back of his car — and in it, the only copy of his precious manuscript.