Murder at Ebbets Field

"MURDER AT EBBETS FIELD" is the third novel in the Mickey Rawlings series of mystery novels I've read in which Major League Baseball looms large. This time, the reader is transported to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn in the first week of August 1914, where the Brooklyn Dodgers is playing against their cro......more

Second mystery outing for Mickey Rawlings. Now he's with the New York Giants and is hoping to play in the World Series. But being a utility player, he is asked to do numerous things just to stay part of the team. When a movie producer asks for a Giant player to be in his movie with starlet, Florence......more

As usual, fun more for the texture of the details rather than the solution to the mystery. The author puts the reader in a different time where athletes and actors were suspect rather than center-stage and where men could be charged with a crime for going shirtless in public. The narrating guide he......more

I am enjoying this series. The books have the requisite murders but are also filled with baseball history which I find fascinating.......more

Again, a good read, entertaining and informative. What is particularly enjoyable about this series is the insight it gives into 1. Baseball in the early 20th century, 2. Some of the characters in the game, and 3. The stadiums that are a part of the history of the game. It is almost as if the mystery i......more