Tight, clean, flat, square, sharp and crisp book in lightly wrinkled DJ. Marks on the FFEP may be a thrift store price. This is a Doubldeay Book Club Omnibus. "Infierno! Another one dead! This means a trip to records to look for a special kind of killer--the ones with pedigrees in rape and assault." A housewife raped and murdered in her own kitchen, a streetwalker killed in a sleazy hotel room, a plundered corpse discovered in a back alley; one after another the victims ended up cold and quiet on the morgue trays. It was Sodom and Gomorrah all over again. It was L.A., the day the official report from the office of Homicide Lt. Luis Mendoza was rain with violence. *** Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is laid low with measles and the Homicide Squad of Los Angeles Police Department has to manage without its Chief of Detectives. There are several off-beat cases to occupy them, like the man tied to a railway and decapitated by a passing train. But, Mendoza does not take his convalescence lying down and he is soon unofficially investigating a case that his colleagues are already pursuing... *** The sixteenth Luis Mendoza book follows the men of the LAPD as they try to solve murder, and find the rapist of an eight year old girl before he kills again. Introduces Cedric, the English sheep dog. *** Things begin to heat up in the Los Angeles Police Department when Lieutenant Luis Mendoza's stolid and good-natured colleague Sergeant Higgins is kidnapped by three dangerous escaped prisoners. A manhunt is launched but no one expects Higgins to be seen alive again. Can Mendoza's team ever recover, or is the officer's return just around the corner?