Suicide Squeeze - Softcover

Everson, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804110077 ISBN 13: 9780804110075

Publisher: Fawcett, 1995

Synopsis

Robert Miles's baseball career is barely a footnote in the annals of America's pastime, but as an Illinois P.I., he's a heavy hitter. That's why he finds himself in the starting line-up of a baseball fantasy camp "dream" game at Wrigley Field. Blackballed major leaguer Dewey Farmer is quietly trying to make a comeback with the Chicago Cubs -- but he's been warned that if he pitches, he'll catch a bullet.
Miles is none too pleased to be baby-sitting a bum like Farmer, especially when the Illinois House Speaker has him chasing down the son of a political rival involved in vehicular manslaughter. What does hitting home runs have to do with a case of hit-and-run? Maybe plenty. Enough, at least, to make the infamous Cubs-Mets "black cat" game of '69 look like Little League, as Miles steps up to bat against crime and corruption with the bases, and a sniper's gun, loaded . . . .
"Witty . . . Entertaining." -- Publishers Weekly

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

Although two of Everson's earlier Bobby Miles mysteries ( Recount and Rebound ) received Shamus nominations, this latest does not seem a likely candidate for that honor. Miles, "central Illinois's premier--and practically only--sleuth," often takes assignments for the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. Here he agrees to look into the hit-and-run charges against the son of Peter Duke, a legislator and the speaker's friend. At the same time, he's searching for the legislator's daughter--who has disappeared somewhere between Florida and Wisconsin--and checking out the death threats leveled against Dewey Farmer, an aging and obnoxious ballplayer hoping for a comeback with the never-victorious Chicago Cubs. Witty dialogue, refreshingly normal characters and an informal, entertaining style are undermined by Everson's prolix attention to baseball and occasionally confusing plot. The resolution is at once surprising and bewildering--not unlike the performance of a brilliant but wild pitcher.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fawcett
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0804110077
• ISBN 13: 9780804110075
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English