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Max Roper #6
The Body Beautiful Murder
Good only in a very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps, toning to pages, slight spine slant) Hardcover first edition - New Random House,, (1976). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in a very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps, toning to pages, slight spine slant) . First printing. Mystery novel featuring private eye Max Roper who is involved in investigating the murder of the reigning Mr. Universe on the eve of the international body-building competition. Front dust jacket features a photograph of the torso of Arnold Schwarzenegger, then Mr. Olympia and the future governor of California. Platt was also a syndicated cartoonist and caricaturist. 177 pp.
177 pages, Hardcover
First published February 15, 2012
About the author
Kin Platt
67 books12 followersPseudonyms: Kirby Carr, Guy West, Alan West, Guy York & Wesley Simon York
Kin Platt (1911–2003) was the author of the perennially popular I Can Read Book Big Max, as well as several outstanding young-adult novels and the Max Roper mystery series for adults. Mr. Platt was also a noted cartoonist.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_Platt
Kin Platt (1911–2003) was the author of the perennially popular I Can Read Book Big Max, as well as several outstanding young-adult novels and the Max Roper mystery series for adults. Mr. Platt was also a noted cartoonist.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_Platt
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January 8, 2020
Throughout the seventies, Kin Platt published seven Max Roper novels.
In them, Roper is a private eye, loosely affiliated with the DEA. Roper's cases almost always seem to revolve around sports themes. The novels don't take themselves too seriously, but have a good solid hardboiled feel and are a lot of fun to read.
Body Beautiful focuses on weightlifting and the Mr. Universe contests and Platt often pokes a little bit of fun at the whole enterprise. There's murder, mayhem, hoods, blondes, and more of the usual private eye fare here.
I really enjoy Platt's writing. His stories feel like fifties-era pulp detective fare. The women in the book are blond, beautiful, and curved in all the right places, the kind he says that don't waste their time
calling on him often. Although sometimes the Roper books are dismissed as light stuff, they are well worth reading.
In them, Roper is a private eye, loosely affiliated with the DEA. Roper's cases almost always seem to revolve around sports themes. The novels don't take themselves too seriously, but have a good solid hardboiled feel and are a lot of fun to read.
Body Beautiful focuses on weightlifting and the Mr. Universe contests and Platt often pokes a little bit of fun at the whole enterprise. There's murder, mayhem, hoods, blondes, and more of the usual private eye fare here.
I really enjoy Platt's writing. His stories feel like fifties-era pulp detective fare. The women in the book are blond, beautiful, and curved in all the right places, the kind he says that don't waste their time
calling on him often. Although sometimes the Roper books are dismissed as light stuff, they are well worth reading.
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