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Brushback Hardback - 1998

by K. C. Constantine

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The highly acclaimed author of "Good Sons" and "Family Values" brings back the popular Detective Ruggiero "Rugs" Carlucci, acting chief of the Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, Police Department. When a former professional baseball player is beaten to death, Carlucci delves into the recent past of the athlete and finds that the bases are loaded with suspects.

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The best days of Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, are behind it. The mills are closed, the mines shut down, and the townsfolk while the days away in the local bars and somehow manage to get along. Yet every once in a while something or someone strikes a spark that lifts everyone up and puts Rocksburg back on the map. Decades before, Bobby Blasco went north to pitch for the Boston Red Sox. Known as the Brushback Kid, he set records in every league he played - including most hit batmen. During spring training in 1959 he even threw square to the head of the great Ted Williams. Later a mysterious accident landed him a permanent place on the disabled list, and he came home to run an illegal gambling club in Rocksburg's Flats. Now Detective Sergeant Rugs Carlucci, the acting chief of the Rocksburg PD, is at Conemaugh General Hospital: Mom is having either a heart or an anxiety attack. While they're in the ER, Rugs gets the call. Someone has murdered the Brushback Kid. Running the plays in a major-league murder investigation - and trying to ensure his own domestic tranquility - Carlucci must find out why the pitching phenom went wrong. Interviews of a parade of Blasco's ex-wives and former friends show a man out of control, a man who took domestic abuse to its farthest limits and who made an enemy of virtually everyone who crossed his line of sight. Carlucci's question: Which of these, in an ironic fit of sportsman's logic, was enemy enough to take a Louisville Slugger to Blasco's head in a pitch-black, frozen alley?

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  • Title Brushback
  • Author K. C. Constantine
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Mysterious Press, New York
  • Publication date 1998-03-01
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9780892966462 / 0892966467
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.22 x 6.4 x 0.98 in (23.42 x 16.26 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Demographic Orientation: Small Town
    • Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Pennsylvania - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97010130
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Booklist, 02/01/1998, Page 902
  • Kirkus Reviews, 01/15/1998, Page 82
  • Library Journal, 03/01/1998, Page 131
  • New York Times, 03/22/1998, Page 28
  • Publishers Weekly, 01/26/1998, Page 72

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