After being taken off the homicide detail and relegated to a desk job, a San Francisco police lieutenant looks into the killing of his father's best friend.

I called the homicide detail from a phone booth, asked for a man named Grinnell, told him quickly what had happened and where to find Louie and the sedan.

When someone does, the Suffolk County police respond with a homicide detail to take over, and Max steps aside.

At the morgue, Briggs announces Callahan and his partner are back on homicide detail.

The members of the homicide detail and the two prowl car men tried to forget it, too.

Then: "That's the homicide detail.

He's in charge of the homicide detail of the Santa Teresa Police Depart-ment, and we sometimes cross swords.

The inspector in charge of the homicide detail knelt gingerly beside the sprawled corpse, to give it a careful and painstaking search.

I was now thirty-four, and for the past two years had been lead inspector on the homicide detail out of the Hall of Justice.

The troopers went about their homicide detail, with the area lit up like day by flashlights, cruisers and a hovering chopper.