Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Decision of the Umpire | 2012 | Troy Soos | Buy |
Decision of the Umpire (2012) is a short mystery by Troy Soos, who is best known for the Mickey Rawlings baseball mystery series. Soos has made a career of combining two passions: historical mystery and baseball history. His Mickey Rawlings novels follow a minor league ballplayer who solves crimes at famous American ballparks in the early 1900s, including Fenway Park, Wrigley Field, and Ebbets Field.
This standalone short mystery draws on the same territory. Soos has a deep knowledge of early twentieth-century baseball, and his fiction uses the sport’s history as more than just backdrop. The real-life stadiums, players, and customs of the Deadball Era and the 1920s give his mysteries a texture that goes beyond a standard whodunit.
Soos is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Society for American Baseball Research. His novels have been reviewed in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and USA Today. For readers who enjoy the Mickey Rawlings series and want another taste of Soos’s baseball-history mysteries, this shorter piece fills the gap between novels.