Troy Soos


Troy Soos is a writer based in Oviedo, Florida and a well-regarded teacher of Advanced Placement physics.
Soos is best known for his "Mickey Rawlings" series of baseball mystery novels. Rawlings, an up-and-coming baseball player living in the early part of the 20th century, is known as a defender of human rights. In addition to the six Mickey Rawlings mysteries, Soos has written four Marshall Webb historical mysteries and two mystery short stories. He is the coauthor of six research papers published in nuclear physics journals.
Soos is a graduate of professional umpire school and has degrees in physics from Rutgers University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

List of works

Mickey Rawlings Historical Baseball Mysteries

The Mickey Rawlings series is set in the period from 1912 to 1922 and includes a number of real ballplayers as characters.
  1. Murder at Fenway Park
  2. Murder at Ebbets Field
  3. Murder at Wrigley Field
  4. Hunting a Detroit Tiger
  5. The Cincinnati Red Stalkings
  6. Hanging Curve
  7. The Tomb That Ruth Built

    Marshall Webb Historical Mysteries

The Marshall Webb mysteries are set in 1890s New York.
  1. Island of Tears
  2. The Gilded Cage
  3. Burning Bridges
  4. Streets of Fire

    Non-Fiction Baseball History