But in The Mugger, the red herrings really stink. Few adaptations of McBain's series, for the movies or for television, have been quite successful in fidelity to the author's nameless city and the cops who police it, but The Mugger must count among the weakest of them - an inferior follow-up to the same year's Cop Hater.

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The Mugger is a 1958 American crime film about a police psychiatrist who is attempting to catch a mysterious mugger that has been attacking women in his city, stealing their purses and slashing their left cheek.

The second book in the 87th Precinct series, The Mugger is an Ed McBain classic, a nuanced portrayal of justice and vengeance hailed by the Daily Mirror as “a masterpiece of crime writing…and there's nobody who does it better.”

Plot: mugger turns slasher~ This starts with ladies getting mugged and ending up with a slash on their left cheek. Enter Kent Smith as a police psychiatrist. He has some theories about the "slasher" . The women who are mugged and slashed act like bimbos rather than traumatized women recovering from a crime.

Brief Synopsis An unidentified city is plagued by a mysterious mugger who attacks women at night, steals their purses, and cuts them on their left cheek. A police shrink, Dr. Pete Graham, is called in when one of the mugger's victims turns up dead.

The Mugger is the second of the 87th Precinct novels, originally published early in 1956 and made into a movie in 1958. The Mugger begins directly after the events of Cop Hater (although it’s in no way necessary to read Cop Hater first).

Canonically, the Mugman character that appears in The Mugger is a "bizarro" version of the Mugman in the series, as shown in Mugman and the Wand. This is likely due to the series-driven Mugman being an entirely different character from this version, as well as Jacob Lenard's dissatisfaction with The Mugger and its notoriety as being a part of "The Dups."

The mugger crocodile (Crocodylus palustris), also called marsh crocodile, broad-snouted crocodile and mugger is a crocodilian native to freshwater habitats from southern Iran to the Indian subcontinent.

1. mugger - a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street) robber - a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence