Kill the Umpire: The Calls of Ed Gorgon

Jon L. Breen. Crippen & Landru Publishers, $17 (182pp) ISBN 978-1-932009-19-4

Fans of Jon L. Breen's baseball mysteries will welcome the Edgar-winning author's Kill the Umpire: The Calls of Ed Gorgon, which includes 16 cases featuring the major league umpire known as the ""horsehide sleuth,"" one of them original to this volume. The striking jacket art, showing bloody bats crossed over blue pinstripes, says it all.

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