Handy Death - Softcover

Fish, Robert L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671802801 ISBN 13: 9780671802806

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1976

Synopsis

A lawyer agrees to defend an ex-baseball prospect accused of murder

In 1964, nineteen-year-old Billy Dupaul was on his way to stardom. A modest farm boy with a lightning fastball, he had just signed a record contract with the New York Mets when a single gunshot changed his life forever. Dupaul went down on an attempted murder rap, and the Mets washed their hands of him. Eight years later, the man he was said to have shot drops dead. After eight summers in Attica, Billy is about to be tried for murder.

The vice president of the Mets shows surprising interest in the case and hires Hank Ross, one of the toughest defense attorneys in Manhattan, to save the boy from the chair. It's an impossible assignment, and Ross will find the case has more bite than any big-league curve.

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Review

'Vivid, humorous, daring and shrewd' Anthony Boucher on The Captain Jose Da Silva Mysteries.

About the Author

Robert L. Fish was a civil engineer and writer. In the late 1950s, he submitted his first short story to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Fish's first novel, The Fugitive, won an Edgar Award for Best First Mystery. His published works include more than forty books and countless short stories. Mute Witness was made into a movie starring Steve McQueen.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671802801
• ISBN 13: 9780671802806
• Binding: Paperback