Fielder's Choice - Hardcover

Bowen, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0312058500 ISBN 13: 9780312058500

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

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New York sophisticates and newlyweds Thomas and Sandy Curry investigate the murder of an acquaintance found dead after a Mets game in a mystery set during the Kennedy era

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Insouciant lawyer Thomas Andrew Curry and sharp-tongued Sandrine Cadette, who debuted in Badger Game (1989), have gotten married and more than a little muffled in this sequel, again set in a nostalgic 1962 and narrated by legal paterfamilias Theodore Furst, who tells (even though he wasn't there) how Thomas and Sandy's new friend, wheeler-dealer Jerry Fielder, was fatally stabbed during a Mets game shortly after Thomas and Sandy left him in a press box with no less than six live suspects--including his jealous wife, a shady labor lawyer, and a young basketball prospect ruined by allegations of cheating. It's obvious that the case hinges on a phony alibi and a scorecard assiduously kept by (later stolen from) Sandy, but except for a nice fistfight between Thomas and the basketball prospect, there's not much to watch while you wait for the characters to figure this out. Lacking the wit and inventiveness of last year's Washington Deceased, this entry throws Bowen's generally forgivable flaws-- thinness, implausibility, infatuation with characters and milieu--into merciless relief. Wait till next year. -- Copyright �1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Mets' disastrous 1962 season is the background for this sometimes enjoyable, occasionally labored mystery starring millionaire freelance lawyer-investigator Thomas Andrew Curry and his new bride, Sandrine. Thomas and Sandy, who finds that baseball fulfills her French passion for logic, become ballpark friends of Jerry Fielder, a grifter and onetime labor extortionist who "always thought that a straight line was the most boring distance between two points." They're among the small group that Jerry invites to the Mets-Braves night game of September 26 in which the Mets become the major leagues' losingest team ever. The Currys go home early, before their host is icepicked to death. The theft of Sandy's scorecard eventually points to the identity of the killer, but by that time the reader may be fed up with insider baseball and insider contract law. Bowen, a Milwaukee lawyer, introduced his likable couple in Badger Game.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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