Richard A. Lupoff

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  • Bibliography:
    54 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    September 2018
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Full Series List in Order

A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery

1 - The Comic Book Killer (Jan-1988)
2 - The Classic Car Killer (Apr-1992)
3 - The Bessie Blue Killer (Mar-1994)
4 - The Sepia Siren Killer (Oct-1994)
5 - The Cover Girl Killer (Oct-1995)
6 - The Silver Chariot Killer (Oct-1996)
7 - The Radio Red Killer (Oct-1997)
8 - The Tinpan Tiger Killer (1998)
9 - The Emerald Cat Killer (Sep-2010)

Twin Planets

1 - Circumpolar! (Aug-1985)

Multi-Author Series List

Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon

1 - The Black Tower (Aug-1988)
6 - Final Battle (1990)

Book List in Order: 54 titles

  • Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century

  • Stroka Prospekt

  • Sword of the Demon

    Through realms of oriental splender and superhuman conflict, a beautiful woman warrior and a fierce man-god journey to challenge a being more awesome than the gods for a magical sword that holds the power of death ... and the key to enlightenment....

  • Circumpolar!

    Twin Planets - 1

    ANTARCTIC SAVAGES - PREHISTORIC MASTODONS - FLYING FORTRESSES - PARALYSING RAY GUNS - GRYPHONS - WATER-WITCHES - LOST CONTINENTS - WONDERFUL FLYING MACHINES...AND MORE!Coming soon - the most fantastic contest ever conceived: An airplane race pitting ...

  • Countersolar!

    On the other side of the sun, opposite our earth, is a world we never see Counterearth. In every way it's identical to ours...almost!Albert Einstein, Juan (and Eva) Peron, Babe Didrickson and Sir Oswald Mosley are off on a wild race to Counterearth. ...

  • The Comic Book Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 1

    He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started gettin...

  • The Forever City

    Teenage camera operator Alfonso Petrov joins a research mission bound for the edge of the solar system. But survival becomes another mission when the research team's tiny spacecraft strays into the Fiction Dimension. A madcap tale blending classic sc...

  • The Black Tower

    Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon - 1

    The quest starts here... Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens unlike anything he has ever imagined. It is a multi-leveled collection of beings in the hidden folds of ...

  • Galaxy's End

    TECHNOLOGY'S GREATEST TRIUMPH. HUMANKIND'S LAST HOPE...Daniel Kitajima was a creature of mind and machine. His artificial limbs were endowed with super-human strength, his perceptual abilities enhanced with telescopic vision, radar and infrared. With...



  • Sun's End

    The last thing computer circuit planner Daniel Kitajima remembered was being hit by a crane at an orbital construction site. Waking up 80 years later - in 2089 - he found that most of his body had been destroyed...but he had survived.A group of docto...

  • Final Battle

    Philip Jose Farmer's The Dungeon - 6

    While escaping from the unknown creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to the ninth level and finds himself stranded alone in a harsh polar wilderness that bears a striking resemblance to Earth...

  • The Classic Car Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 2

    It's Saturday night and mild-mannered insurance adjuster Hobart Lindsey is where he usually is -- at home with Mother -- when the call comes in: a 1928 SJ Duesenberg convertible Phaeton, worth a cool half a million dollars, has been reported stolen b...

  • Night of the Living Gator!

  • The Bessie Blue Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 3

    During World War II, due to a shortage of qualified pilots, Uncle Sam began a program of training thousands of military pilots. Among these were the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-Americans eager to fly in combat. Fifty years later a Hollywood st...

  • The Sepia Siren Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 4

    Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michau...

  • The Cover Girl Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 5

    Who WAS that gorgeous model? When a helicopter loses power and plunges into the icy waters of scenic Lake Tahoe, killing its only passenger, millionaire Albert Crocker Vansittart, what looks like a routine claim against a life insurance policy turns ...

  • The Silver Chariot Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 6

    WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED... So begins one of the most famous quotations in all of crime fiction. And just as the murder of Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, sets off the quest in the great Dashiell Hammett's greatest novel, so the murder of ...

  • Outer Limits

  • The Radio Red Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 7

    Bob Bjorner is the last of the "red hot lefties" at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air--but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes...



  • The Tinpan Tiger Killer

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    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 8

  • Claremont Tales

  • Claremont Tales: Limited Edition

  • One Murder At A Time

    Is it really over? Have Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum solved their last case? Lindsey, the mild-mannered bachelor insurance adjuster. Plum, the tough inner-city cop and single mom. You can hardly think of an odder couple, but somehow they were able ...

  • Claremont Tales II

    These thirteen tales twist the conventions of science fiction, mystery, horror, humour, and adventure into one gripping collection. In 'Green Ice' unassuming Mr Ino is assigned to recover a missing extraterrestrial artefact, believed to be from the i...

  • Sacred Locomotive Flies

    "If you have any interest at all in satire, SF's New Wave, the Sixties, pop music, comic books, the picaresque tradition in literature, juicy, vigorous, humorous writing, or even such a trivial matter as how the world of 2003 got into the state we da...

  • Master of Adventure

    So, just how was Tarzan created? Eager to know the inside story about the legendary John Carter and the amazing cities and peoples of Barsoom? Perhaps your taste is more suited to David Innes and the fantastic lost world at the Earth’s core? Or may...

  • Terrors

    Ranging from the mysterious to pulp action to the Lovecraftian, this vivid collection of short fiction explores a world of radio heroes, masterful villains, and creatures from places unknown....

  • Quintet

    SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION!! The Era of Wonderful Nonsense was over, replaced by the grimmer, grittier world of the Great Depression. But millionaire autodidact polymath Akhenaton Beelzebub Chase and his brilliant, lissome associate Claire Delacroix, li...

  • Deep Space

    "Forever City" is the story of Alfonso Ivanovich Petrov and Mariel O'Hara, two members of a space-bred generation to whom Earth is little more than their ancestral home, a legend of the past. When Mariel's brother, Dylan, disappears o...



  • Visions

    VISIONS by Richard A. Lupoff is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories selected from decades of writing. The author consistently shows himself to be a master storyteller, and these short stories are fine examples, containing psychic detecti...

  • Marblehead

    Marblehead encompasses all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles Sylvester Viereck....

  • Killer's Dozen

    From the Introduction by Ed Gorman: If there's one thing Dick Lupoff understands (with perverse glee) it's the sorry state of the human condition. In this collection you'll find a wide variety of humans whose conditions leave much to be desired. A pi...

  • The Universal Holmes

    This is a collection of Sherlockian pastiches written by Richard A. Lupoff over the years. Include five stories, a recipe (for giant rat) and an introduction by Gary Lovisi....

  • The Emerald Cat Killer

    A Hobart Lindsey/Marvia Plum Mystery - 9

    Hobart Lindsey is called back to the San Francisco Bay Area for one last case. A local book publisher is being sued over a novel that might actually be the last, lost work of a novelist killed more than a year ago....

  • Lisa Kane

    In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the twelfth Wildside Double: LISA KANE: A NOVEL OF WEREWOLVES, by Richard A. Lupoff. Lisa is a 12-year-old girl with all the worries of any n...

  • Rookie Blues

  • Dreams

    I have long admired the things Dick Lupoff can do in the way of atmosphere and characterization in any sort of story-dark or light.-ROGER ZELAZNYHis books and stories, I can testify, having read a great many of them and published some myself, almost ...

  • The Cases of Chase and Delacroix

  • The Evil Below

    'INVESTIGATOR SEEKS SECRETARY, AMANUENSIS, AND GENERAL ASSISTANT. APPLICANT MUST EXHIBIT COURAGE, STRENGTH, WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS AND EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN...' In 1905, John O'Leary had newly arrived in San Francisco. Looking for work, he had answe...



  • What If? #3

    Back in the 60s and 70s writer Richard A. Lupoff knew his SF. He knew it so well he put out two books called WHAT IF? each consisting of stories that were eligible for Hugo awards and in his opinion should have won. He had a third volume in this fasc...

  • Rookie Cop

    America, June 1940. Nick Train has given up his dreams of a boxing championship after a brief and unsuccessful career in the ring. When one of his pals takes the examination for the police academy, Nick decides to join him. But what started out as a ...

  • Dreamer's Dozen

    The author of "The Comic Book Killer" offers up twelve tales of mystery, magic, and grouchiness -- served with a liberal dash of sarcasm and cynicism. A woman’s birthday celebration becomes a prelude to murder; an absinthe-minded author seeks ins...

  • Fool's Hill

    GENOCIDE - IN THE NAME OF LOVEAcross the planet, only a handful of giant, overcrowded, doomed cities exist - cities like Norcal, where multiple marriages are recommended and drug-taking is encouraged.Across the planet, everyone waits for the reclamat...

  • One Million Centuries

    Lost and unconscious in the Antarctic, chopper pilot Robert Parker awoke from a frozen sleep one million centuries later, in a tropical forest, where butterflies gave the kiss of death and men fought with broadsword and javelin....

  • Space War Blues

    New Alabama. A planet that's a fair reproduction of long-lost Dixie, filled with down-home, racist rednecks. The N'Alabamians have carried their tribal prejudices to the farthest reached of the galaxy, like the other minorities expelled from the Eart...

  • Into the Aether

    When the Chester A. Arthur, the world's first and only coal/steam/paddlewheel-propelled spaceship rose into the skies over Buffalo Falls, Pa., who would have expected what followed?Will Professor Thintwhistle and his crew be able to return to earth? ...

  • Lovecraft's Book

    When unworldly fantasist H.P. Lovecraft was approached by crafty fanatic George Sylvester Viereck to write an American Mein Kampf, the bait was almost irresistible.If Lovecraft would lend his pen and his Anglo-Saxon stock to the fascist cause, Vierec...

  • Sandworld

    Stranded on a strange planet with a race of alien vampires!Red O'Reilly, the hero, is among three prisoners being transported by car with a guard and a social worker on a rainy night in contemporary California. Suddenly, in a flash, the car is off th...

  • The Triune Man

    Is Buddy Satvan the creator of the cartoon superhero Diamond Sutro? Or is Sutro the creator of Buddy Satvan, the mightiest crusader in the universe? Are these two men, or six? Are they real, or figments of someone's imagination? A challenging journey...



  • Before 12:01 and After

    Before 12:01 and After is a collection of science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror stories by Richard A. Lupoff, collecting the best of his short fiction from his long writing career. It contains the following stories:"Mr. Greene and the Monster"...

  • Philip Jose Farmer's the Dungeon Vol. 1

    The return of a classic 'shared world' fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the RIVERWORLD saga. Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs and aliens un...

  • Philip Jose Farmer's the Dungeon Vol. 6

    Philip Jose Farmer, bestselling author of Riverworld, introduces the climatic volume of fantastic adventure within the confines of THE DUNGEON Escape-and victory? Fleeing from the mysterious creators of the Dungeon, Clive Folliot breaks through to...

  • Ancient Evil Returns

    A youthful journalist seeks to unravel the mysterious disaster that struck a New England town nearly a century ago... A young couple, stranded by a monstrous storm, seek shelter in a darkened town and discover a dangerous cult... A peculiar child is ...

  • What If

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Richard A. Lupoff has published 54 books.

Richard A. Lupoff does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Ancient Evil Returns, was published in September 2018.

The first book by Richard A. Lupoff, Buck Rogers in the Twenty-Fifth Century, was published in November 1978.

Yes. Richard A. Lupoff has 2 series.
Author Series
Multi-Author Series
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