Strike Three You're Dead

R.D. Rosen

ISBN 10: 0802755879 / ISBN 13: 9780802755872

Published by Walker and Company, New York, 1984

About this Item

CK6 - A first US edition (complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by R.D. Rosen on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, tanning and light shelf wear. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.75"x5.75", 234 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 2505ec787

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Strike Three You're Dead
• Publisher: Walker and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802755879
• ISBN 13: 9780802755872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First US Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Outfielder Harvey Blissberg probes further than the puzzled police when his roommate, Rudy Furth, is murdered and uncovers a variety of suspects and possible reasons for his team's losing record

Review

Penzler Pick, September 2001: Originally published in 1984 and winner of the prestigious Edgar Award for Best First Novel, Strike Three, You're Dead is a brainy baseball mystery that quickly developed a cult following. Burrowing into the lives of troubled clients, former Red Sox center fielder Harvey Blissberg was a character one could take to heart: all too human in his frailties and able to fit, however uneasily, his morality to the exigencies of the situation. He commonly finished his cases having learned as much about himself as about the crime, the criminal, the victim, or his client.

Three entries in the series followed: Fadeaway, Saturday Night Dead, and World of Hurt. Now, 10 years after the last of these, Rosen is about to resume his hero's career with Dead Ball, coming out in November. In anticipation, Rosen's publisher has reissued Strike Three, You're Dead.

Read it to get acquainted with Harvey, known to his teammates as the Professor because of his fondness for Harris tweed jackets and hardcover books. Read it to learn all about that dysfunctional family, the Providence Jewels, the American League expansion team to which Harvey has descended from the former heights of the Boston Red Sox outfield. Read it to get psyched for Dead Ball and the return of Harvey Blissberg. But, most of all, read it to understand why Strike Three, You're Dead won an Edgar, was called by The Denver Post "one of the best sports detective novels of all time," and was named one of the century's best mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. --Otto Penzler