Green Monster: A Sam Skarda Mystery: Sam Skarda Mysteries
Autor Rick Shefchiken Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2008
After a second World Championship in four years, the Boston Red Sox have finally buried the Curse of the Bambinoaor have they? Sox owner Louis Kenwood receives an extortion note signed aBabe Rutha claiming that the 2004 World Series was fixedaand demanding $50 million to keep the information from getting to the press and the Commissioneras office.
If the allegation of a fix becomes public, Kenwood fears irreparable damage to the value of his franchise and to his legacy as aLucky Louie, a the man who finally brought a championship to Boston after 86 years. Thus, the Red Sox turn to private detective Sam Skarda to find out whoas behind the extortion plot.
Kenwood insists that his beautiful executive assistant Heather Canby accompanyaand monitoraSam on every step of his investigation. Unsure whom he can trust, Sam follows the clues to the Los Angeles underworld and then to the slums of Venezuela. Can he assemble all of the pieces to this puzzle before more lives are lost and scandal blasts the Red Sox Nation? Green Monster is the second novel in the Sam Skarda series, following Amen Corner.
If the allegation of a fix becomes public, Kenwood fears irreparable damage to the value of his franchise and to his legacy as aLucky Louie, a the man who finally brought a championship to Boston after 86 years. Thus, the Red Sox turn to private detective Sam Skarda to find out whoas behind the extortion plot.
Kenwood insists that his beautiful executive assistant Heather Canby accompanyaand monitoraSam on every step of his investigation. Unsure whom he can trust, Sam follows the clues to the Los Angeles underworld and then to the slums of Venezuela. Can he assemble all of the pieces to this puzzle before more lives are lost and scandal blasts the Red Sox Nation? Green Monster is the second novel in the Sam Skarda series, following Amen Corner.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781590585252
ISBN-10: 1590585259
Pagini: 450
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Sam Skarda Mysteries
ISBN-10: 1590585259
Pagini: 450
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Poisoned Pen Press
Seria Sam Skarda Mysteries
Recenzii
"The straight-ahead crime plot works best as a MacGuffin for a fact-packed roman a clef about a singular American institution."
Descriere
After a second World Championship in four years, the Boston Red Sox have finally buried the Curse of the Bambino. Sox owner Louis Kenwood receives an extortion note claiming that the 2004 World Series was fixed. Can the mystery be solved before scandal blasts the Red Sox Nation?
Notă biografică
Rick Shefchik spent twenty-six years at the St. Paul Pioneer Press as a media critic, feature writer-columnist, enterprise reporter, and sportswriter, before leaving in 2006 to devote his full attention to writing novels. He is also a lifelong golfer and plays guitar with an oldies band called Yesterday's News. He lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with his family.