four-to-midnight

His counterpart on the four-to-midnight shift wasn't at his apartment in the Inner Sunset; when I finally located him at a bar on Irving Street that his landlady said he frequented, a shot of scotch bought me only the information that he'd admitted no unauthorized persons to the building the night before and had seen no strangers take the semiprivate elevator to the penthouse.

Till the Butchers Cut Him Down Muller, Marcia 1994

THE FIRST EXPLOSION did not come until the four-to-midnight tour was almost a half hour old.

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

Santoro, who was catching, said Parker had the four-to-midnight tonight.

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

They had both deliberately chosen to work the four-to-midnight on Christmas Eve so that they could spend the big day itself with their families.

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

None of the four-to-midnight detectives answered him.

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

He had shaken his partners untimely from their beds that morning -- (the trio were mining nights, on the four-to-midnight shift) -- and busied them all with the work of the day, by way of making preparations.

The Furnace of Gold Philip Verrill Mighels

I was working the four-to-midnight shift with my partner, Leroy Spivey, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.

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He’d worked steadily through the morning, eager to finish that one wall before he’d have to stop, change into his uniform, and report for the four-to-midnight shift.

A Different Light Mariah Stewart 2010

Of the remaining fourteen, four had pulled the four-to-midnight shift on that fifth day of January and would have been at the squadroom even if they hadn’t received an invitation to the party.

Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985