![]() ![]() Eventually, his search leads Hobart to his old nemesis, Nathan ben Zinowicz, and a brutal conclusion. It happens that Hobart's company, International Surety, carried Vansittart's policy, which names, as its beneficiary, the "girl on the cover of Death in the Ditch." Hobart's search for the mystery woman takes him into the world of rare paperbacks and short-lived publishers?and to New Orleans, where the story becomes one of love, sacrifice and the ideals of the Americans who fought against fascism in Spain. In fact, Jamie captures the accident and the rescue of the pilot on video. While insurance-claims adjuster Hobart and Berkeley, Calif., cop Marvia are on a boat in Lake Tahoe with Marvia's son Jamie, they witness the crash of a helicopter, in which millionaire Albert Vansittart dies. 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. ![]()
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