Murderer's Row

Duffy House Mystery #2

by Crabbe Evers

Called in by the Commissioner of Baseball, Duffy House — retired sports columnist and baseball aficionado — is faced with a daunting task: to find out who killed the most hated man in baseball, the owner of the New York Yankees .

Genres: Baseball, Fiction, Sports, Mystery

260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

About the author

Crabbe Evers is a pseudonym for the writing team of William Brashler and Reinder Van Til, who wrote the Duffy House mystery series.

Reviews

[John Stanley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A light, but very good, entertaining murder story wrapped in a ton of baseball history. If you love basebal you should definitely read the Crabbe Evers, Duffy House mysteries. (Crabbe Evers is the pseudonym for the writing team of William Brashler and Reinder Van Til. William Brashler wrote The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, the highly regarded novel of a touring black baseball team in the pre-Jackie Robinson era, as well as two other novels.)

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

William Brashler and Reinder Van Til writing together become Crabbe Evers the author of this baseball mystery series. They do a great job of revealing much of the wonder that is baseball, it’s trivia and peculiarities and then mixing this into a well crafted murder mystery. In MURDERER’S ROW I particularly enjoyed the many quotes from Casey and Yogi:
Yogi—“Pitching is seventy-five percent of the game, and the other half is hitting.”

Casey—“Good pitching will always beat good hitting, and vice versa.” ( pg. 129)

Fans of baseball, as well as those who enjoy a good mystery will find this book worthwhile and if you happen to be a fan of both like I am, definitely pick it up. It’s not a literary masterpiece, but a well turned double play.

[Karen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this series in order, there are spoilers of earlier books.