Strike Three, You're Dead — Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

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 corruption and violently lovesick groupies.

Only ex-roommate Harvey Blissberg knew that Rudy had been as clean - and as predictable - as his own pitching game. That's why Harvey was willing to play private eye along with center field...even when it looked as if Rudy's killer was gunning for a deadly double play...