A wonderful memoir and history

In the mid-1950s, when Monterey, California, was a small, neat, little town, four Policewomen, each with two children, worked for the local Police Department.

This book is a memoir of those times, and tells it as true as it was, “lumps and all.” Author Mary Bell, one of the retired Policewomen, threads the life and times of the four women throughout the book, “getting our fingers in a lot of pots.

Riding a three-wheeler Harley-Davidson, she patrolled the streets of the historic first port on the Pacific Coast and its Cannery Row immortalized in John Steinbeck’s novels. Mary Bell relates the strange, funny, enlightening, and wonderful moments of her years as a Policewoman in Monterey when she and her colleagues were the first women to make arrests and keep the peace as Officers of the Law.