Early Seattle was a hardscrabble seaport filled with merchant sailors, longshoremen, lumberjacks, rowdy saloons, and a rough-and-tumble police force not immune to corruption and graft. And now, Seattle's evolution to high-finance and high-tech has provided even greater opportunity to those with sinister intent. A number of authors including G. M. Ford, Bharti Kirchner, Kathleen Alcalá, and Curt Colbert thus portray our metropolis.

Wasn't as engaging as I thought it would be; only a story or two were memorable.