"You Didn't Happen to See Which One Cut Your Throat?"

"Support Your Local Police."
By David Magil (?-?).
First appearance: Worlds of IF, July-August 1973.
Short story (13 pages).
Online at Archive.org (HERE).
(Parental caution: Some mild expletives.)

"Such a disorderly young lady! How come she was working for law and order?"

Detective Mike Winsor's humdrum life is going along about as badly as could be expected until he has a very close encounter with an eye-achingly gorgeous baby-doll ("Hi") who really, truly needs ten million dollars and—perhaps more significantly—absolutely refuses
to stay dead . . .

Resource:
- David Magil's minuscule ISFDb bibliography is (HERE).
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