The London Blitz Murders, Max Allan Collins
The London Blitz Murders, Max Allan Collins
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The London Blitz Murders

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 5 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

By day, she’s Mrs. Mallowan, hospital pharmacist. By night, she’s Agatha Christie, queen of crime.Doing her part for the war effort, Agatha dispenses medicine in shell-shocked London. But the world’s most renowned mystery writer is troubled. Compared to the horrors of World War II, her detective novels seem trivial and quaint. When a Jack the Ripper–style murderer strikes, Agatha lobbies her friend, forensics expert Sir Bernard Spilsbury, to take her to the crime scenes. But the killings are far more gruesome than any that her fictional detectives have ever solved. Can a crime writer also be a crime fighter? Joining forces with London’s top investigators, Agatha risks her life to stop the monstrous serial killer.With this ripped-from-the-headlines mystery, author Max Allan Collins presents a blood-stained valentine to the most celebrated author of detective fiction.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Perdition and multiple award-winning novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and historical fiction. He has scripted the Dick Tracy comic strip, Batman comic books, and written tie-in novels based on the CSI, Bones, and Dark Angel TV series; collaborated with legendary mystery author Mickey Spillane; and authored numerous mystery novels including the Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and Nathan Heller series. His additional Disaster series mystery novels include The Lusitania Murders, The Titanic Murders, The Hindenburg Murders, The Pearl Harbor Murders, and The War of the Worlds Murder.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Clint

The author explains in his afterword that this novel is a love letter to Agatha Christie. He also explains that it's a bit of a deviation from his hardboiled crime novels. I happen to enjoy hardboiled crime, so I probably shouldn't have chosen this as a jumping in point for Max Allan Collins. No off......more

Goodreads review by Sandi

Though perhaps not one of the better entries in this series, this was enjoyable enough. Agatha Christie is the lead in this book and the author used the real life Blackout Ripper's story for the plot. Listened to the audio version which was read by Anne Flosnik who did not really do much for me.......more

Goodreads review by Vikas

Structured like an Agatha Christie novel with a delicacy of touch despite the macabre issue it deals with...and evokes that time and place wonderfully......more

Goodreads review by Ira

This is the weakest book in the series. Which is unfortunate because I was looking forward to read the book where Agatha Christie is doing the detective work. Unfortunately the whole murder story was absolutely boring. A bunch of people died but there wasn't that many interesting clues or anything. T......more

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