Writing style
Dialogue-driven · Direct · Witty
Fuzz; an 87th precinct mystery
Mystery and thriller · Dark comedy
- First published
- 1968
- Print length
- 240 pagesDoubleday, 1968
Description
In the fictional city of Isola, detectives of the 87th Precinct receive a sequence of taunting warnings from the Deaf Man, a criminal strategist who announces intended murders of municipal officials and names a price for stopping them. The squad must determine whether his threats are prophecy, misdirection, or instructions for crimes already in motion. At the same time, another investigation draws officers toward a series of attacks in which men sleeping rough are set on fire. Competing cases, scarce attention, and imperfect communication turn routine police work into controlled chaos. Shifting viewpoints, procedural detail, squad-room banter, and dark comedy frame a contest between institutional persistence and an adversary who treats the entire city as his stage.
Reading profile
About this profile
Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).
- Writing
- How much attention the sentences and language require.
- Ideas
- How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
- Structure
- How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
- Background knowledge
- Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
- Emotional intensity
- Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.
Pace
Brisk
Tone
Humorous · Irreverent · Suspenseful · Tense
Structure
Braided
Focus
Mystery · Plot
Emotional intensity
4 / 5
Reading complexity
1–5 · higher means more demanding- Writing
- 2 / 5
- Ideas
- 2 / 5
- Structure
- 3 / 5
- Background knowledge
- 1 / 5
Themes
Book details
For the print edition listed above.
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Language
- English
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