The Fifth Precinct is J. F. Benedetto's ongoing series of short stories--mysteries, puzzlers and straight crime fiction--that have appeared in print in various magazines and anthologies, including Woman's World, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine, an upcoming issue of American Mensa's Calliope, and Wolfmont Press's The Gift of Murder Christmas anthology in the Winter of 2009.
The various characters who inhabit the Fifth Precinct's station house on Elizabeth Street and the surrounding neighborhoods of Chinatown and Little Italy range from detectives, beat cops and lab technicians to private eyes, bounty hunters and repossession agents, but they all have one thing in common: they work day in and day out with the seamier side of life in the streets of the naked city.