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There's no holiday from homicide for amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his long-suffering brother-in-law, Jeff Cody. Murderers' Row, their second casebook of shorter stories, collects three adventures connected with what should have been happy occasions. When Meg Russert's destination wedding on the tropical island of Barbados becomes A Destination Murder, Mac is a fish out of water dealing with a local police inspector less than impressed by his qualifications as a detective. But, as usual, Mac special help from a friend in high places. But will it be enough? Erin's annual Independence Day parade takes a stunning turn when a controversial activist looking on from the sidelines turns up Dead on the Fourth of July. Jeff, who was watching the victim the entire time, swears that only a magician could have committed this impossible crime! When the estranged husband of an Erin Eagles supporter is shot to death outside the team stadium, Mac and Jeff find themselves involved in the offbeat world of independent minor league baseball. By the end of the case, Jeff solves a different mystery and loses blood.

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Review for Casebook 1 - Rogue's Gallery With every visit to Erin, Ohio - a fully realized location that I want to visit, even if it will take a bit of hunting - Dan Andriacco creates layer upon layer of excellence. Book by book - and in the case of Rogues Gallery short story by short story - narrator Jeff Cody paints a real portrait of the town - it's layout and eccentric inhabitants - and most importantly, that unique larger-than-life detective Sebastian McCabe. In this volume, we realize that Erin is just like some of those other mystery towns where murders seem to happen regularly, and under most mysterious circumstances. Or maybe it isn't the location. Rather, it's the people. For Cody and McCabe seem to run across dead bodies in the same way that Ellery Queen or Poirot once did. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I was too young to read some of my favorite mystery series - Nero Wolfe, Ellery Queen, and Poirot - when they were initially being published. (Not to mention the original Sherlock Holmes adventures, which were published way before my time!) It's really great to be able to see these evolve as the series continues to grow in the present, and I look forward to the next volumes. As with so many great series, these are really just one big story spread out over many volumes - Jeff's courtship and marriage to Lynda, for instance - and the mysteries and murders along the way are just a part of the overall intriguing narrative. Keep up the good work! Sherlock Holmes Society of London

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