MURDER AT EBBETS FIELD
by Troy Soos
A second outing for Mickey Rawlings, the 1914 New York Giants' second-string second baseman (Murder at Fenway Park, 1994, not reviewed)—who's drafted into appearing in movie star Florence Hampton's latest film, only to discover her body washed up at Coney Island the morning after a heartfelt party. Florence, it turns out in the first of several nicely placed surprises, was trying to solve the two-year-old murder of her husband, and her death is only the first of a new round of skullduggery. And even though too little of the action involves the Giants' pennant run, patient readers will be rewarded by a homicide that really does take place, against all odds, at Ebbets Field. Well-judged period background (including a winsome role for Casey Stengel) enlivens a solid mystery.