The Spoiler: A Novel of Baseball and Murder

Domenic Stansberry, Deomenic Stansberry. Permanent Press (NY), $22 (278pp) ISBN 978-1-57962-049-3

A 15-year-old classic and Edgar Award finalist is happily back in print: The Spoiler: A Novel of Baseball and Murder by Domenic Stansberry (The Last Days of Il Duce), which follows down-at-the-heels, twice-divorced, baseball-crazy reporter Frank Lofton, who's drifted into a Massachusetts mill town to follow his obsession: the minor league Holyoke Redwings. When a player dies inexplicably and several cases of arson plague the town, Lofton becomes wrapped in a web of sordid smalltown corruption and political scandal.

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