Murder at Ebbets Field: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery (A Mickey Rawlings Mystery)

It's One. . .Two. . .Three Strikes You're Dead Mickey Rawlings will do whatever it takes to help his New York Giants get past the Brooklyn Dodgers and into the World Series. If that means playing a bit part in a movie starring screen goddess Florence Hampton, he's game. What's not in the lineup is Florence washing up on a beach bloated and dead following a glitzy night of champagne and paparazzi. Since Rawlings has a perfect batting average when it comes to solving murders, he can't just walk away from the crime--especially when the killer has an agenda that could change more than a few lives forever--and puts the Series into perspective for Rawlings. While the boys of summer heat up for the final playoff stretch, every pitch, every swing heightens the tension on a mystery that might be too tough for Rawlings to deliver in the clutch this time. Equal parts baseball and mystery are the perfect proportion. --Robert Parker Praise for the Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mysteries Full of life. -- The New York Times Book Review on Hanging Curve A perfect book for the rain delay. . .a winner! -- USA Today on Murder at Fenway Park Delightful. . .mixing suspense, period detail that will leave readers eager for subsequent innings. -- Publishers Weekly on Murder at Fenway Park Slugger/amateur sleuth Mickey Rawlings is back for a second whodunit. August 1914: the Giants are in first place, the Dodgers last, and Mickey might well realize his most cherished dream of playing in the World Series. But as the pennant race heats up, Mickey finds himself matching wits with a killer who has an irritating habit of vanishing into thin air. In 1914, baseball star Mickey Rawlings is hired to act in a baseball movie featuring a famous starlet. When the starlet is poisoned with arsenic--the same fate that befell her husband--Rawlings puts his sleuthing talents to work. By the author of Murder at Fenway Park Mickey Rawlings, now playing for the New York Giants, gets a bit part in a movie and investigates the murder of an actress who was also the widow of the former owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers