Poison Author:Ed McBain "'Nicotine?' Carella said. — 'Yeah,' Blaney said. 'Deadly poison. Couldn't have been a very pleasant death either...Makes uou want to quit smoking doesn't it?'" — Jerome McKennon was very dead, very nastily dead. — The 87th precinct boys were on a new case, but for Hal Willis it would be far more than just another crime investigation. His relations... more »hip with Marilyn Hollis was hardly the usual one between a cop and a suspect.« less