Service Dress Blues
A Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mystery

This contemporary puzzle mystery features Rep and Melissa Pennyworth, a bantering, plucky couple. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has followed Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for an assistant professorship. Then, on the night before the ArmyNavy game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in a cheap motel near the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The victims closest relatives are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging but scrappy Wisconsin political activists who had asked Rep for copyright advice. Ole and Lena have a wellearned reputation for trading punches with each other, and when Ole is murdered, Lena becomes an instant suspect. But Rep and Melissa suspect there is more involved, including a connection between the midshipmans mugging and Oles murder.