Fadeaway

ROSEN, Richard

ISBN 10: 006015599X / ISBN 13: 9780060155995

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1986

About this Item

Authors second mystery; involves basketball players; 264pp. Tight, clean copy in bright dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 912782

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fadeaway
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006015599X
• ISBN 13: 9780060155995
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Firsts
  • Mystery
  • Basketball

About this title

Synopsis

Harvey Blissberg uncovers a trail of corruption and blackmail that leads into the past when he is called in to investigate the murders of two pro basketball players from different teams

Reviews

Ex-Red Sox center fielder Harvey Blissberg (Strike Three You're Dead is now a private eye in Cambridge. He's hired to find a missing Boston Celtics star and then, quickly, a missing Washington Bullets player. Both athletes have vanished from Boston's Logan Airport, the Celtic last seen in the company of "a man with a beard." Blissberg can't find any connection between the players, and there are hints that drugs are behind the disappearances. Then the two bodies turn up in separate lockers in the Eastern terminal, both shot, but with different guns. Blissberg finds a very tenuous connection that takes him to Providence, where he uncovers the old, possible murder of a high-school basketball star that may involve a legendary college coach now running for the U.S. Senate. Background details of Providence and Cambridge are nicely conveyed, but readers may object that the final, crucial clue to the mystery isn't played fairly. And New Englanders may be dismayed by the sporadic, hence jarring, depiction of their accents.
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