Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

A Harvey Blissberg Mystery

1 - Strike Three, You're Dead (May-1984)
2 - Fadeaway (Sep-1986)
3 - Saturday Night Dead (Jun-1988)
4 - World of Hurt (Oct-1994)
5 - Dead Ball (Oct-2001)

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  Strike Three, You're Dead
  

  • May-1984
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Harvey Blissberg Mystery - 1
  

  All season long, the Providence Jewels had taken a beating on the diamond. Now they had to contend with a killer in the clubhouse. Somebody had benched relief pitcher Rudy Furth permanently...and left his corpse in a whirlpool of whispers about mob c...

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  Fadeaway
  

  • Sep-1986
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Harvey Blissberg Mystery - 2
  

  Now a private investigator, Blissberg scours locker rooms and back alleys for two missing basketball stars After retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg hung out a shingle in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as a private detective with a taste for the l...

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  Saturday Night Dead
  

  • Jun-1988
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Harvey Blissberg Mystery - 3
  

  Agreeing to keep a major-league ballplayer sober until his appearance on the TV show Last Laughs, Blissberg is in New York and in the midst of the group hired by the executive in charge, Roy Ganz, to revive the fading series. The detective hears comp...

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  World of Hurt
  

  • Oct-1994
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Harvey Blissberg Mystery - 4
  

  Harvey Blissberg, ex-major league outfielder turned private eye, is summoned to Chicago by his brother, Norm, to look into the murder of real-estate agent Larry Peplow. Norm once played basketball with Larry and feels an obligation to this pleasant, ...

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  Dead Ball
  

  • Oct-2001
  • / Private Investigator
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  A Harvey Blissberg Mystery - 5
  

  Harvey Blissberg played for the Providence Jewels 15 years ago; then he was a PI and a motivational speaker, but now he isn't motivated by much of anything. He's roused, however, by a call from the team: their black slugger Moss Cooley is closing in ...

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  Mercy Killing And Other Tall Meisehs
  

  • Mar-2008
  • / General Fiction
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  Jewish life, at least for those who follow ancient traditions, has a rule book. In fact it has many rule books. They are the Torah, the Talmud, and numerous writings by the rabbis over the millennia. In those books are laws governing virtually every ...

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  Such Good Girls
  

  • Sep-2014
  • / General Fiction
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Award-Winning Books by Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

Strike Three, You're Dead
1985 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel