Thu 5 Jun 2025
An Archived PI Mystery Review: RICHARD ROSEN – Fadeaway.
Posted by Steve under Bibliographies, Lists & Checklists , Characters , Reviews[3] Comments
RICHARD ROSEN – Fadeaway. PI Harvey Blissberg #2. Harper & Row, hardcover, 1986. Onyx, paperback; 1st printing, September 1987.
Former baseball center fielder Harvey Blissberg is now a Boston PI, and his first real case is a doozey: two star NBA basketball players have just been found murdered at Logan Airport, The police naturally think of cocaine, but Harvey keeps digging.
And ends up in Providence again, where in his earlier adventure, he first solved a murder (and the town really is New England’s armpit). Rosen can write crystal clear page-turning prose, and he can write murky. In this book he does an admirable job at both.
The Harvey Blissberg series:
Strike Three You’re Dead (1984)
Fadeaway (1986)
Saturday Night Dead (1988)
World Of Hurt (1994)
Dead Ball (2001) .
June 5th, 2025 at 8:17 pm
FADEAWAY was only one I read, had trouble finding the others,but I liked this one.
June 6th, 2025 at 7:53 am
I loved the Harvey Blissberg books and was very sorry to see him fade from the scene.
Rosen, often credited as R. D. Rosen, began as poet, and is also a nonfiction writer, a humorist, a sportswriter, and a radio and television writer.
He famously invented the word “psychobabble.’
June 6th, 2025 at 11:39 am
Another writer of many talents. Thanks, Jerry!