![]() ![]() (The dead man was no pal of the rest of the team.) And somewhere along the way a diary supposedly having belonged to Edgar Allan Poe comes into play, along with a missing $20,000 that Mr. Arongio was right, and she’s another looker), and several other members of the Ravens. The baseball setting may or may not be unique in the annals of PI fiction, but the action simply does not let up from this point on. ![]() And the first guy to reach him? No guesses. ![]() And guess what? Before the game is over, while it’s still being played, the other guy, the third baseman, is in fact dead, face down on the ground. If ever one guy could wish another guy dead just staring at him, that first guy would be Mr. Arongio (Noon’s prey) has eyes only on that other team’s third baseman. They’re playing a pre-season exhibition game with a makeshift (semi-pro?) team called the Providence Ravens. ![]() The Polo Grounds, as a matter of fact, the home of the New York Giants before they absconded off to San Francisco. But where does he go? To a baseball game. Manhattan-based PI Ed Noon is hired by a woman to follow her husband, an antiques dealer by profession, whom she suspects is cheating on her. Permabook M-3012, paperback, August 1955 James Meese cover art. ![]()
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