Double Play, Parker, Robert B. Published by Putnam, 2004. First Edition, Signed by author. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 288pp. Quarter blue cloth over red boards, blue metallic spine titles. Discreet remainder mark tail of spine and otherwise volume and dustjacket are in fine condition.
The Grand Master of mystery offers a richly textured, change-of-pace historical novel set in 1947, the year that Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, as seen through the eyes of Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, who is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey as Robinson’s bodyguard.
