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Murder at Wrigley Field by Troy Soos is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Murder at Wrigley Field about?
Starting for the Cubs in war-frenzied 1918 Chicago, star hitter Mickey Rawlings attempts to learn who has been sabotaging the team's efforts and becomes embroiled in a murder investigation after his best friend is killed. Reprint.From Publishers WeeklyIn the summer of 1918, wartime fever grips Chicago, rendering even pretzels and dachshunds verboten. Mickey Rawlings, journeyman second baseman and hero of Soos's last two mysteries (Murder at Fenway Park and Murder at Ebbets Fields) has a new shortstop to work with, Willie Kaiser. With a name like Kaiser, Willie is not the most popular guy in Chicago. On July 4th, while marching in a patriotic parade at Cubs Park (it would not be named Wrigley Field until 1926), Kaiser is fatally shot. Rawlings is determined to find out who did it. Among his suspects are the shortstop who lost his job to Willie; the Patriotic Knights of Liberty, an anti-German vigilante group; and Bennett Harrington, a part owner of the Cubs who would like to be the boss. Learning that Kaiser had worked in Harrington's war plant, Rawlings takes a job there to snoop. His life is endangered by an explosion set up by the plant's security chief, who belongs to the Patrio
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Troy Soos
- Publisher
- Kensington
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.81 / 5 (232 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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