QUINTET: The Cases of Chase and Delacroix **SIGNED COPY / LIMITED EDITION**

Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.: Crippen & Landru, 2008. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF 200 COPIES BOUND IN CLOTH AND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY LUPOFF (this being #130). Accompanying each copy is a seperately printed pamphlet "The Laddie in the Lake". The Era of Wonderful Nonesense 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, live on comfortably in their neo-Tudor mansion in the hills above Berkeley, California. It is a milieu reminiscent of the surrondings of Philo Vance, young Ellery Queen, and other amateur sleuths of that bygone era. But their luxuriant lives are interrupted when the head of the San Francisco Police Dept.'s detective bureau, calls on them to solve bafflling cases. They must unravel the mysteries of a famous Hungarian actor found dead in his dressing room, two tiny puncture wounds in his neck; a deep-water explorer who disappears from his diving suit forty feet beneath the surfface of Monterey Bay; a test pilot who flies an experimental fighter plane into a cloud with a passanger on board and emerges seconds later, alone. The author plays fair with the reader, providing every clue needed to solve each case before its solution is revealed. Six cases (plus the seperately printed pamphlet) with a new introduction by the author.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by Miller, Deborah. Limited/ Numbered Edition.