Fair Play: A Lupa Schwartz Trilogy

Lupa Schwartz #3

by J. David Core

This third installment in the Lupa Schwartz Mystery series features three standalone novellas, two featuring Lupa Schwartz and his chronicler, Cattleya Hoskin, and one noir tale set in the same universe featuring an unnamed bounty hunter. When a contestant on a popular reality game show dies live on the air, Cattleya Hoskin pushes for Lupa Shwartz to get involved and solve the case before the rest of America beats him to it. Lupa Schwartz needs Cattleya’s help to go undercover as a convenience store employee to solve a real-world logic puzzle and expose a killer. Confessions of the The last person Eric Dadjov would have expected to confide in was the bounty hunter sent to take him to court, but his wife has betrayed him leaving his life in shambles. A careless moment purging his anger has led to formal charges, so when he learns that he might have more in common with the forlorn bounty hunter than he thinks, a frustrated Eric just begins venting.Gradually, the details of Dadjov’s story begin to suggest that he has a sinister plan for revenge brewing. Is the bounty hunter complicit, a dupe, or is he the next victim of the cuckold?

211 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2014

About the author

With a profound interest in religion, liberal politics and humor, Dave began writing in High School and has not given up on it since. His first professional writing jobs came while attending the Art Institute of Pittsburgh when he was hired to create political cartoons for the Pitt News & to write humor pieces for Smile Magazine. Dave has worked in the newspaper industry as a photographer, in the online publishing industry as a weekly contributor to Streetmail.com, and was a contributing writer to the Buzz On series of informational books and to the Western online anthology, Elbow Creek. Dave’s science fiction novel, Synthetic Blood and Mixed Emotions, is available from writewordsinc.com. Dave currently resides in his childhood home in Toronto, OH with his beautiful girlfriend and his teenage daughter. He enjoys participating in local community events & visiting with his two adult children and his grandson. Join the Facebook fan-page at https://www.facebook.com/Lupaschwartz...