The Cover Girl Killer

Lupoff, Richard A. The Cover Girl Killer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.
ISBN: 031213455X. Amazon.com lists this title as out of print. You can try to special order it, or you can look for it at your public library.

The Cover Girl Killer is a Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum mystery, in which Hobart Lindsey needs to find the girl who served as a model for the cover picture on a paperback printed in the 50s. If he can find it, he will save his company $1,000,000 and help his career. If he can't, the full $4,000,000 award goes to the alternate beneficiaries. For some reason, the alternates don't want Hobart to find the woman.

Richard Lupoff's "Killer" series combines some lovely nostalgia and history with a very current, present day mystery. Characters are well presented, and they deal with problems that the rest of us face as well. But in these stories we have an unusual level of subtle connectedness with the past as we deal with collections of old objects, past events, and their impact on the resulting characters. I don't find the action as gripping as in many mysteries, but I love the characters and the history. This series presents us with books to savor.

Lupoff, Richard A. The Bessie Blue Killer. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
ISBN: 0312104251. Amazon.com lists this title as out of print. You can try to special order it, or you can look for it at your public library.

The following two titles are in print, and can be ordered through Amazon.com:

The Radio Red Killer : A Marvia Plum Mystery ~ Ships in 2-3 days

Richard A. Lupoff / Hardcover / Published 1997
Our Price: $16.09 ~ You Save: $6.90 (30%)
This book features Marvia Plum in a sort of locked room mystery (though not really) at one of the oddest radio stations you will encounter. You will hear very little of Hobart Lindsey in this book, but Marvia turns out to be an enchanting character and and excellent investigator on her own.

The Silver Chariot Killer : A Hobart Lindsey Mystery ~ Ships in 2-3 days

Richard A. Lupoff / Hardcover / Published 1996
Our Price: $15.37 ~ You Save: $6.58 (30%)
(I haven't read this one yet, but I'll comment when I get around to doing so.)

The following two books in the same series I have not read, and they are now out of print. If I get ahold of copies, I will include some comments.

The Classic Car Killer

Richard Lupoff / Published 1992
(Out of Print--Try our out-of-print search service!)

The Comic Book Killer

Richard A. Lupoff / Published 1989
(Out of Print--Try our out-of-print search service!)