B-Day, as it came to be known, finally arrived. It was a Friday. A school day. I identified with Cinderella as I watched Dad get ready for work. Holster, check. Gun, check.  Billy club, check. Handcuffs, check. . . . Saturday morning I got up early. Dad was already gone. Back to work. Ushering the Beatles out of town. On the table . . . there were two small bars of soap, slightly used, the words "Coach House Inn" still legible. One book of matches with four missing. And a note from Dad, "From their room." . . . No one else’s dad comes home from work with something that might, just might, have been intimate with a Beatle.
    Growing up, Mel Miskimen thought that a gun and handcuffs on the kitchen table were as normal as a gallon of milk and a loaf of Mrs. Karl’s bread. Her father, a Milwaukee cop for almost forty years was part Super Hero (He simply held up his hand and three lanes of traffic came to a screeching halt) and part Supreme Being (He could be anywhere at anytime. I never knew when or where he would pop up.) Miskimen’s memoir, told in humorous vignettes, tells what it was like for a girl growing up with a dad who packed a lunch and packed heat.

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments	000
Special Thanks	000
Introduction	000
The Case of the Missing Maidenform	3
Sting Ray Sting	000
Barbie Crime Scene	000
In the Matter Of: The Beatles	000
Mob Mentality	000
Cop Nabs Car Thief-Next Stop: The Slammer	000
The Basement, AKA the Rec Room	000
Just Another Day at the Office	000
The Banana Incident	000
The Payoff	000
Loaded Questions	000
Games That Cops Play	000
Five Minutes and Counting	000
Crime Takes No Holidays	000
Dynamic Duo	000
Easter Duty	000
The Home Front	000
Dating Procedures	000
The Dance Routine	000
Sketchy Details	000
Rangemaster	000
Ponytail Girl Et Al.	000
Cop Switch-Off	000
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Miskimen, Mel C, , 1955- Childhood and youth, Fathers and daughters Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee (Wis, ) Biography

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