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Match Point for Murder
Match Point for Murder
Match Point for Murder
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Match Point for Murder

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The games are tennis and murder … and private eye Max Roper has a bevy of beautiful tennis competitors to turn his head when he goes after the murderer of lovely Aussie tennis star Wendy Cliff. It was set up to look as if it was one of her opponents in the Los Angeles ladies pro tournament who did it—Wendy was garroted by a piece of tennis stringing. These include all the lovely women athletes who are taking part in the international competition. In addition to the local aspirants, the usual collection of current and ex- champions, there is the Italian start who boasts the most devastating-looking legs Roper has ever seen, the cuddly young Russian doubles pair, the beautiful French star, and their various friends and countrymen who hate to see them lose.

Just to complicate Max’s problem, there is a fighting liberal senator from California threatened by a fanatic guerilla group of international assassins with whom Roper is waging a long-time personal vendetta. In the course of his investigation (as usual, filled with risk and violence), other murders follow. And Roper, pursuing the blood trail, quickly has his own life to worry about. Max has to go to the limit with his special brand of endurance and fighting character before he can come up with the winner and bring the murderer along.
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LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 15, 2012
ISBN9781440540424
Match Point for Murder
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Kin Platt

Kin Platt (1911–2003) was an award-winning author and comic artist. Some of his works include the Max Roper mystery series and the Steve Forrester young adult mystery series. 

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    Kin Platt is one of those authors who just doesn't get enough credit for his terrific work. His Max Roper series is a hardboiled fifties-era private eye series set in the midst of 1970s Southern California. Each book focuses on a murder involving a professional athlete in a particular
    sport such as bodybuilding, horse racing or golf.

    Here, that sport is women's tennis which was just starting to take off in popularity and the narrator is justifiably fascinated by the women's skimpy tennis outfits and sexy trimmed athletic bodies.

    The focus on the seventies takes in women's lib and international
    terrorism, with Roper lamenting the brutal murders at the 1972 Olympics that certainly deserves greater recognition from a world still beset by teams of these vicious murderers.

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