SIDEWAYS GLANCE BASEBALL MYSTERIES THAT SOMETIMES HIT A DEAD END.--The book: ``Murderers' Row: A Collection of Original Baseball Mysteries'' --The authors: Lawrence Block For the U.S. federal judge, see . Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an acclaimed contemporary American crime writer best known for two long-running New York-set series, about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, respectively. , Max Allan Collins, Michael Collins, Michael, 1890–1922, Irish revolutionary leader. He spent the years from 1907 to 1916 in England, during which period he joined the Fenian movement. He took part in the Easter Rebellion in Dublin in 1916 and was imprisoned for the rest of the year. Connelly, K.C. Constantine, Elmore Leonard Noun 1. Elmore Leonard - United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925) Dutch Leonard, Elmore John Leonard, Leonard , John Lescroart John Lescroart (b. January 14 1948 in Houston, Texas) is an American author best known for two series of legal and crime thrillers featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky. Lescroart, (pronounced "less-kwah") is a writer with a highly diverse background. , Laura Lippman, Mike Lupica, Michael Malone, Robert B. Parker
--The essential info: New Millennium Press, $24.95, 369 pages. --What's it all about: This lineup of 14 short stories (about 30 pages each) tries to tie baseball in some way to a yarn that involves something mysterious, suspenseful or just plain eerie. Sometimes it works. Most times it ends up reading like an episode of ``Scooby Doo.'' --The best of the bunch: ``Two Bagger'' by Connelly, which uses Dodger Stadium as the setting as two agents follow someone just released from state prison; ``Chickasaw Charlie Hoke'' by Leonard, about an aging ex-player who exaggerates a little too much about his career, and ``Ropa Vieja'' by Lippman, about an Orioles pitcher victimized by a far- too-zealous rotisserie-team owner. --The list at the end: Penzler includes a three-page bibliography for recommended reading for this genre. Among them: ``Bleeding Dodger Blue'' by Crabbe Evers in 1991. --What's next: Penzler, who runs The Mysterious Bookshop in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , intends to follow this up with mystery anthologies on boxing, football, tennis, golf and horse racing. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (book: ``Murderers' Row: A Collection of Original Baseball Mysteries'') |
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