Deuces Wild — Dell Shannon

It was a bloody hot August -- even for Los Angeles. Robbery-Homicide was shorthanded because of vacations, but crime didn't let up. The usual cases of human violence and venery were on hand: A young girl hurtled to her drug-induced death… A handsome minister was stabbed in his car… A hit-and-run driver killed a middle-aged nurse… A storekeeper was beaten up for $40 in the till…

Lt. Mendoza was questioning a distraught citizen when his desk phone rang. “Luis” said Alison Mendoza in a great gulping sob. “Luis, the twins are gone!”

And Lt. Mendoza became a man possessed, a coldly controlled cop on the most harrowing case of his career!