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 getting murdered.

The Comic Book Killer is the first volume in Richard A. Lupoff’s hugely popular Lindsey-and-Plum series. Readers will cheer the return of these grand characters and their exciting investigations.

The Shoggoths attack: “They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again…. They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable–but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE.”

Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Comte de Saint-Germain owns a companion cryptogram that he believes is the key to finding a fabulous treasure buried by the pirate Levasseur.

Harassed by Shoggoths and tracked by Saint-Germain, Dupin must find the key to the complex puzzle. Can the might of Cthulhu be held at bay? And even if he finds an answer, can he and his friends escape with their lives?

Pete Schofield tangles with marijuana and murder in a sizzling case that’s almost too hot to handle!

The team from Earth had the task of raising backward planets to the home world’s high level. The situation on Rigel was this:

“The most advanced culture on Rigel’s first planet is to be compared to the Italian cities during Europe’s feudalistic yeas. The most advanced of the second planet is comparable to the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.”

“These planets are in your control to the extent that no small group has ever dominated millions before. No Caesar ever exerted the power that will be in your collective hands. For half a century, you will be as gods and goddesses!”

But the Rigelians were themselves descended from the lost colonists of old Earth and they could learn their lessons as fast as they could be taught. In fact, they could even teach their teachers a thing or two. And therein lay the peril the professors from space never dreamed of.

Island One, the U.S.’s first space colony and symbol of an American Renaissance, is in trouble. Low morale, shoddy workmanship, unexplained malfunctions, and avoidable accidents have become a way of life, and nobody seems to know why. Is in the Russians? Home-grown anti-technologists? Arabs afraid of cheap solar power from Space — or something even more sinister?

When the President ordered secret agent Peter Kapitz to find out what was going on, Peter’s first discovery is that the Russians are indeed involved. His second is that they are not alone. He will probably not live to make a third.

Go backward through space-time into prehistory? It seemed fantastic, but the machine—invented by Bob’s father in connection with his research on the interrelation of time and gravity—actually exists.

Bob and his friend Pete are anxious to be the first to visit the era of the dinosaurs. Overruled, they watch Pete’s father, a famous paleontologist, step into the shimmering ring—and disappear into the past. But when he does not return on schedule because the machine jams, they decide to follow him on a rescue mission…

A thrilling time-travel adventure!