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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781575664552
ISBN number: 1575664550
Label: Kensington
Manufacturer: Kensington
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 163
Printing Date: October 01, 1999
Publishing house: Kensington
Sale Popularity Level: 1288390
Studio: Kensington
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As a fan of the Mickey Rawling's series, this book was great! This book kept my attention and I could hardly put it down! I would also recommend "Murder at Wrigley Field". Troy Soos is a great author.
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I love a good mystery. I also love the game of baseball and I am a history buff. This book was a three in one pleasure for me. It combines all three of these subjects in a flowing style that is a joy to read. Not only does it bring to life the baseball heros that we never got the chance to see, but it also gives us an idea of what it was like to live in those times. Do yourself a favor and read this book it is like taking a trip in a time machine.
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Being a mystery writer with my very first novel in its initial release, I have been a great admirer of Troy Soos for years. I have been reading his Mickey Rawlings novels since the beginning, and I wrote an early critical essay about them that appeared in Mystery Reader's Journal. Since the publication of that essay, Soos has written two fresh Mickey Rawlings mysteries, and HANGING CURVE is easily the strongest in the entire series. HANGING CURVE lands Mickey, our journeyman everyman, in St. Louis where he is playing for the Browns and tangling with the KKK. He's attempting to solve a murder, a lynching, amid the racial turmoil of the Roaring Twenties in America's Midwest. As always, the mystery elements of these books are terrific. Another crucial element of these novels is the historical backdrop that Soos paints with his words. His history is painstakingly researched and utterly accurate. In HANGING CURVE, Soos presents an era with social problems of which many people may be unaware. On all levels, HANGING CURVE is the best mystery Troy Soos has written so far. Great book, whether or not you love baseball (as you should).
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Troy Soos had me hooked with Murder at Ebbetts Field. Having been a former ballplayer myself, I was able to live vicariously through Mickey Rawlings. Soos' writing style transports you back to the days when baseball was a game and you played for the love of it. Hanging Curve is as gripping as any mystery I've ever read. Combined with Soos' historical accounts, I swear I felt like I was watching him from the stands at Sportsman's Park. Mickey Rawlings takes the reader on every adventure, like you're helping him solve the crime. It took me two nights to read this book -- I couldn't put it down until I found out "who-done-it." The bigger mystery to me is when Mickey will get his chance to play in the Series and, more importantly, when will he finally say his "I do's" with Margie???
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Ive read and enjoyed all of Troy Soos' baseball novels, and this is as good as any hes written. Soos gives us a great story of old time baseball, the Negro Leagues, and even fully explained the political tenor of the times through the rise of the KKK and its effect on society. Soos was incredibly accurate in his descriptions, and his book was so entertaining I couldnt put it down.
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