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Troy Soos

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Troy Soos is a writer and teacher based in Winter Park, Florida. Soos is best known for his "Mickey Rawlings" series of historical baseball novels (seven books set from 1912 to 1923). He also authored a four-book historical mystery series set in 1890s New York featuring Marshall Webb and Rebecca Davies. Soos has written a nonfiction history of early New England baseball history, "Before the Curse," and two mystery short stories ("Pick-Off Play" and "Decision of the Umpire") now available as e-books. His newest release is "The Tomb That Ruth Built," the seventh in the Mickey Rawlings series (published March 2014).
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	Murder at Fenway Park 3.59 avg rating — 816 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder At Wrigley Field 3.80 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder At Ebbets Field 3.83 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunting a Detroit Tiger (Mickey Rawlings, #4) 3.93 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 1998 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cincinnati Red Stalkings 4.03 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hanging Curve 4.08 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tomb That Ruth Built 4.25 avg rating — 136 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Island Of Tears 3.70 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilded Cage (Marshall Webb and Rebecca Davies, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pick-Off Play 4.03 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

by Stieg Larsson

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Pages from the Goncourt Journals

by Edmond de Goncourt

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The Bookseller of Inverness

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“I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.”
― Troy Soos, Murder at Fenway Park

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“What was the fun of being upper-class if you had to work so hard to appear bored all the time?”
― Troy Soos, Murder At Ebbets Field

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“It’s gonna be locked.” He fished in his pocket and handed me a key. “If things blow up, you swiped this from me. Got it?” “Got it. Thanks.”
― Troy Soos, Hunting a Detroit Tiger: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
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“There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
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“I had only four hairs worth shaving, but I managed to inflict five cuts attempting to remove them.”
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“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
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