There Was a Little Girl / Ed McBain 323 p.

Matthew Hope takes two shots outside a bar in a seedy neighborhood in this 11th in the series.  As he lies in a coma, private investigator Warren Chambers joins with Morris Bloom, and Toots Kiley to find out who wanted Matthew dead.  Hope was hired to close a real estate deal for a circus, but, found himself investigating the death of a three-foot-tall woman, part of the circus, and just where her estate went.  Chambers, Bloom and Kiley retrace Hope's past week to find the shooter.