Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here! (1971)

Night shift and day shift bring the 87th Precinct a collection of jobs, from a killing to a church bombing and an unlikely complaint about ghosts. McBain lets several detectives carry the book rather than making every event wait for Carella. The changing scale of the cases is especially good for a reader interested in competing demands and unfinished work. Expect short bursts of activity, rough humour and serious violence, with no single central puzzle organising the whole day's experience.