THE RALPH PALMER CHRONICLES · BOOK ONE
THE ROOKIE AND THE RACKETS
Detroit · 1946–1963
The badge enters the story. Cases, streets, precincts, newspapers and a changing Detroit begin to converge around the documented police career of Ralph Renna Palmer.
ABOUT BOOK ONE
A deeper route into the early police chronology.
The website opens the historical world around the story without giving away the complete narrative. The Rookie and the Rackets is the first full-length volume in The Ralph Palmer Chronicles and follows the early decades of Ralph Palmer's Detroit police career through documented records, historical sources and family archives.
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