Murder in the Ball Park vs Native speaker: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: New york, Private investigators, Fiction
Murder in the Ball Park
A killer hiding among the crowd at a Dodgers-Giants game forces Nero Wolfe to step up to the plate in this "superb" mystery (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the…
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Native speaker
Korean-American Henry Park is a "surreptitious, B+ student of life, illegal alien, emotional alien, yellow peril: neo-American, stranger, follower, traitor, spy ..." or so says his wife, in the list she writes upon…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Native speaker has the widest readership — 9402 ratings behind its score.
- Native speaker runs the darker storyline; Murder in the Ball Park stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Murder in the Ball Park | Native speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.7 (9402) |
| Hardcover | 2.7 (3) | 3.4 (11) |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (80) | 4.0 (39) |
Reception
| Murder in the Ball Park | Native speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 80 | 9402 |
| Editions | 5 | 9 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 18166 |
| Reading it now | — | 654 |
| Written reviews | — | 955 |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 814 |
| Pages | 240 | 336 |