Books by Richard A. Lupoff and Complete Book Reviews
Richard A. Lupoff, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-10425-2
The hook in this mystery-thriller is the full-bloom romance between white insurance adjuster Hobart Lindsey and black homicide detective Marvia Plum, who last teamed up in The Classic Car Killer . Lindsey's employer has written a $100-million policy
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Richard A. Lupoff. Bold Venture, $19.95 trade paper (386p) ISBN 978-1-537128-87-0
Lupoff’s autobiography, distilled from the many essays he has written on science fiction, comic books, old-time radio programs, genre fiction, movies, and other forms of contemporary popular culture, is a delightful tour in which the subjects that...
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Richard A. Lupoff. Ramble/Surinam Turtle, $20 (284p) ISBN 978-1-60543-878-8
Pop culture junkies with nostalgia in their hearts will drool over this third collection of essays, introductions, and reviews by Lupoff, whose bona fides in the fields of fantasy and science fiction include the editing (with his wife Pat) of Xero,...
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Richard A. Lupoff. Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $20 trade paper%C2%A0(268p) ISBN 978-1-61498-038-4
The prolific Lupoff isn't shown to best advantage in this collection of 13 short stories. Things get off to a sluggish start with five entries from the Ben Zaccheus Case Files. These occult adventures featuring an uninvolving Holmes-and-Watson–like...
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Richard A. Lupoff. Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $20 trade paper (258p) ISBN 978-1-61498-039-1
The first entry in this collection from genre veteran Lupoff, "The Adventure of the Voorish Sign," is the strongest of the 15 stories. That Sherlock Holmes pastiche effectively merges the universes of Doyle and Lovecraft, with a credible Watsonian...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14736-5
Lupoff, a prolific writer, captures lots of old-fashioned values in his series featuring insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey. In a narrative sense, these values include solid research, straightforward prose and a narrative engine that chugs along...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (268p) ISBN 978-0-312-17181-0
Sgt. Marvia Plum of the Berkeley, Calif., police force gets the starring role after sharing billing with insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey in several previous mysteries (including The Silver Chariot Killer, 1996). After having briefly left the...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-13455-6
Having plumbed the worlds of classic cars, comic books and old movies, Lupoff turns in his fifth Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum mystery (after The Sepia Siren Killer) to rare pulp paperbacks. While insurance-claims adjuster Hobart and Berkeley,...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (261p) ISBN 978-0-312-11332-2
Despite occasionally stilted prose and some dubious police procedure, the latest in the Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum series (after The Bessie Blue Killer) is an effective puzzler in which the appealing interracial team (Lindsey is white; Plum is black)
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author . Golden Gryphon $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-930846-07-4
Whatever happened to Richard Lupoff? While not as active as he was in his heyday a generation or so ago, Lupoff is still producing solid work, as shown in this collection of 13 stories, an eclectic mix of SF, fantasy and mystery, ranging from...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author Arbor House Publishing $16.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-87795-858-1
In this followup to Circumpolar!, Lupoff again admits us to his engagingly loopy alternate universe where the popular culture's far-fetched ideas turn out to be literally true. In a peaceful 1942 that hasn't heard of Adolf Hitler, a competition...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author Crimeline $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-29607-5
Lupoff ( The Comic Book Killer ) cleverly builds this second adventure of mild-mannered insurance adjuster Hobart Lindsey around several cases of ``anachronistic mimesis,'' otherwise known as imitation of other eras. We meet an eccentric club that...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author Golden Gryphon Press $23.95 (290p) ISBN 978-1-930846-00-5
After some 50 books and 100 short stories, Lupoff has yet to achieve stardom, but he remains a skillful and inventive practitioner of lighter fantasy, as shown in this somewhat mixed collection. The opening tale, ""Black Mist,"" about a Japanese...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author Golden Gryphon Press $100 (290p) ISBN 978-1-930846-01-2
After some 50 books and 100 short stories, Lupoff has yet to achieve stardom, but he remains a skillful and inventive practitioner of lighter fantasy, as shown in this somewhat mixed collection. The opening tale, ""Black Mist,"" about a Japanese...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-64813-8
Lupoff's eighth and possibly final mystery featuring insurance investigator Hobart Lindsey and Berkeley, Calif., homicide detective Marvia Plum (after 1997's The Radio Red Killer) will please series fans more than first-timers. Lindsey's old boss...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author . Ramble $17.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-9774527-4-3
The affection of prolific fantasy author Lupoff (Marblehead: A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft) for Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson lifts this collection of five previously published tales, one of which, “The God of the Naked...
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Richard A. Lupoff, Author . Ramble $24.95 (478p) ISBN 978-0-9774527-3-6
Fans of Lupoff's Lovecraft's Book
(1985) will welcome what amounts to the original, uncut version of that novel. This alternative history focuses on the busy year 1927 in the life of Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. As in...
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