Time Trip on a Moebius Strip [Paperback]

I've just finished reading Time Trip on a Mobius Strip, which seems in an original way to meld the Twilight Zone with Art Bell/George Noory's Coast to Coast AM radio program.

It's a very fun book to read and would make a good movie in the hands of the right director. The dialogue and situation between John Dillinger and Jimmy Hoffa sets the tone for this mysterious suspense/thriller in which historical missing persons interact and discover uncanny similarities between one another. I'd like to read any other works by D. Richard Lewis, but all that shows up in Google is Richard D. Lewis, shared by several people.

A scientist enters another dimension through a giant seashell and meets a cast of historical
characters.
Marine biologist Philip Grieg had a magical, if unsettling, experience as a child. Growing
up on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas, he was accustomed to strange artifacts washed ashore
by the Gulf of Mexico. But none matched the wondrousness of a ten-foot-high shell, one so large
that the young Philip could walk inside. There, he heard an eerie voice that would haunt him into
adulthood. Twenty-five years later, Philip is a prominent scientist, with the specter of the seashell
still lingering over him. He looks up a friend, professor Moebius at Harvard, and asks for help in
resolving the mystery of the otherworldly shell. The professor has a secret weapon at his disposal: His great-grandfather was Dr. August Moebius,
who discovered the Moebius strip, a geometrical and physical oddity with two edges but only one surface. It is said that traveling along the strip is
akin to traveling between dimensions. Thus, Philip and Moebius, with the help of the beautiful M.D. Elaine Rogers, work to lay a track of Moebius
strip down inside the spiraling, symmetrical shell, aiming to gain access to the supernatural properties it possesses. Using vehicles to speed around
the strip, they soon confirm their suspicions and enter another dimension, one that exists between the living and dead. The space is populated by
noteworthy historical characters, all dead or presumed missing. The protagonists meet John Dillinger, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, Glenn Miller
and George Leigh Mallory, among others. There, the plot unravels and forward motion ceases, literally and figuratively, as each of the notorious figures
tells their story, and Philip looks for a common thread. The stories become episodic and unlinked, causing the narrative to suffer. The mishmash
of history and pseudoscience don't do the story any favors; while interesting, readers may doubt its accuracy. There is too heavy a reliance on historical
information throughout, and not enough focus on realistic dialogue or narrative development. Literary audiences, however, will enjoy Lewis'
tribute to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, and how he ties it into the plot.
Trippy bit of indulgent storytelling, readable in short bursts.

(This review is not by Richard Lewis, the author of "TIME TRIP ON A MOEBIUS STRIP," but by a reviewer at "Kirkus Discoveries.")(Please read my comment of this review by clicking the "Comment" tab at the bottom left of this review.)

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