The Cover Girl Killer

Lindsey & Plum #5

by Richard A. Lupoff

When a suspicious helicopter crash sends millionaire P. Vansittart to the bottom of Lake Tahoe, International Surety's ace claims adjuster Hobart Lindsey is on the case. His find the girl in Vansittart's policy, "the woman on the cover of Death in the Ditch" - a hardboiled novel of the early fifties.
But did this beautiful model ever exist? Or was she just the creation of another long-forgotten pulp artist's lurid imagination?
In this, the fifth novel in the series that began with The Comic Book Killer, Lindsey and his girlfriend, Berkeley detective Marvia Plum, are sent headfirst into the dusty world of vintage paperbacks on a search that turns up an old nemesis, an old love triangle, and the sinister side of America's Golden Age.

Genres: Mystery

280 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Richard Allen "Dick" Lupoff (born February 21, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American science fiction and mystery author, who has also written humor, satire, non-fiction and reviews. In addition to his two dozen novels and more than 40 short stories, he has also edited science-fantasy anthologies. He is an expert on the writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs and has an equally strong interest in H. P. Lovecraft. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1970 he worked in the computer industry.

Reviews

[Paul Dellinger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast Moving Mystery

We’ll, it’s not so much a mystery as a thriller because we and the hero pretty well know whodunnit even if the cops aren’t sure. The characters in this series go through changes even while closing the unique case of trying to find an elusive insurance beneficiary. Just when you think everything’s over and wonder at the elongated ending, Lupoff throws you a curve. Likeable protagonists and a good story.

[Darinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

The 5th book in the Lindsey & Plum series. Entertaining mystery.