OLD FLAME A Jackson Steeg Novel By Ira Berkowitz Three Rivers. 275 pp. Paperback, $12.95 Most of the novels reviewed here are some variation on the police procedural, in which someone -- most often a cop, private eye or reporter -- is out to solve a mystery. This genre has an honorable tradition,...

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