Gleneden
Beach author Ron Lovell held a reading and book signing for his second
published
novel, "Dead Whales Tell No Tales," Saturday, March 29, 2003,
at the Oregon State University
Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center in Newport.
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Photos by Dennis Wolverton/Oregon Stater Magazine
Corvallis Gazette Times, March 25, 2003
HMCS Introduces Murder Mystery
By Mid-Valley Sunday
Newport — A marine biologist working at a marine center on the Oregon coast dies under suspicious circumstances. His graduate student drowns at sea. Suspects include a former girlfriend, a Japanese fisheries minister, an Eskimo whaling commissioner and several radical environmentalists. And a gray whale has beached herself on a local beach, adding an intriguing twist to the mystery.
Gleneden Beach author Ron Lovell will hold a reading and book signing for his second published novel, "Dead Whales Tell No Tales," from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Visitor Center in Newport.
A short reception will follow the book signing.
"This
mystery takes place in a facility remarkably like the Oregon State University
Hatfield Marine Science Center," says HMSC spokesperson Terri Nogler.
"So it seems appropriate that the premier of the book take place
at the center, especially during Whale Watch Week."
This is the second murder mystery that Lovell, an emeritus professor of
journalism and English at Oregon State University, has located on the
Oregon Coast. "The Oregon Coast offers a number of locales that are
perfect backdrops to creating a sense of danger, conjuring up menace and
finding bodies," he says. "How can you beat lighthouses, bridges
built by the WPA, abandoned rock quarries, isolated inlets and a cove
that used to be a cave until the roof fell in?"
Part of the story in his first book, "Murder at Yaquina Head," takes place in the lighthouse at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.
Published by Sunstone Press of Santa Fe, N.M., and due in bookstores in late March, "Dead Whales Tell No Tales" is the second in the series whose main character Thomas Martindale is a journalism professor at an Oregon university who was once an investigative reporter on a magazine in New York.
This background gives him the ability — and the curiosity— to delve into situations that most laymen would ignore. This, combined with a penchant for helping those in need leads him to take far too many chances and puts him into the middle of more murder and mayhem than the average professor encounters in a lifetime.
After a successful career in magazine journalism for Business Week, Medical World News and McGraw-Hill World News, Lovell taught journalism at Oregon State University for 24 years.
He is the author of 13 journalism and photography textbooks and has published numerous magazine articles. The book will be available for purchase from the HMSC Bookstore.