The call-girl ring had it easy. The girls worked their customers in the city, but their headquarters was in the next county -- out of reach of the city police. They paid the sheriff for protection, in cash…and in trade.
It was a sweet set-up -- until Mike Macauley, Assistant D. A. set out to break up the racket. There were two ways the ring could discourage him—frame-up or murder. They tried both…