B. & E.

An interrupted burglary on a peaceful Milbrook street ends in the stabbing of a citizen and the murder of a cop. And that's only the beginning of a criminal nightmare for special investigator Whit Pynchon. Even with newspaper editor Anna Tyree, Whit has his hands full — with an obnoxious new police chief, a rabble-rousing minister, a pack of eager news hounds and the elusive killer.