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rsdsharp

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9. I finished the seven Mickey Rawlings mysteries by Troy Soos,

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Sun Mar 8, 2026, 02:43 PM

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as well as two of his baseball related short stories.

In doing so, I discovered that he wrote a second mystery series featuring writer Marshall Webb as protagonist. Webb actually had a cameo in the last Mickey Rawlings book. The Webb series is set in the 1890s in New York City, and feels a little like Caleb Carr’s books, but not as dark. I read Island of Tears, and just started the second book in the series, The Guilded Cage.

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