The War of the Worlds Murder, Max Allan Collins
The War of the Worlds Murder, Max Allan Collins
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The War of the Worlds Murder

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

Orson Welles is the bombastic wonder boy of radio and stage. But is he also a murderer?Walter Gibson—creator of pulp superhero the Shadow—travels to New York City to collaborate on a script with Welles, star of the radio show The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The young Welles is a charming but difficult taskmaster who relishes dramatic blowouts with friends, lovers, and colleagues. So when a dead body is found in the studio minutes before the live broadcast of The War of the Worlds, Gibson knows Welles will be the New York Police Department’s number one suspect. Gibson has exactly one hour—while Welles is on the air enacting the infamous hoax story of a Martian invasion—to find the real murderer and clear the radio star’s name. With its brilliant reconstruction of the broadcast that hoodwinked the nation, The War of the Worlds Murder is a paean to radio’s golden age.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of 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 series including Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, Eliot Ness, and the bestselling Nathan Heller historical thrillers. His additional Disaster series mystery novels include The Titanic Murders, The Hindenburg Murders, The Pearl Harbor Murders, The Lusitania Murders, and The London Blitz Murders.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

I enjoyed this book so much that I just read it a second time, something I can't do often as there are so many books I want to read for the first time! I like it because it brings to life 1930s America and the world of radio. The murder mystery takes place around the time of the famous (or infamous......more

Goodreads review by Johnny

Wow! The way Max Collins interweaves his real experience with Walter Gibson (aka Maxwell Grant) at a 1975 convention of mystery writers and a story in which Gibson solves a mystery involving the great Orson Welles and the brilliant John Houseman leaves one wondering where the “history” ends and the......more

Goodreads review by Jean-Pierre

For someone like me who is a fan of Orson Welles, the Shadow, classic radio shows, and all things War of the Worlds, this book was a godsend. Featuring Orson Welles and Shadow creator Walter Gibson as main characters, the novel tells of all the creativity and chaos that went into creating the simula......more

Goodreads review by Tom

This might be my favorite read this year. Collins imasterfully mixes fact with fiction. This pairing of a young Orson Welles and Walter Gibson is absolutely delightful.......more

Goodreads review by Bev

Unlike the Sherlock Holmes pastiche of a similar name (which I read last year), The War of the Worlds Murder by Max Allan Collins does not take place in the world of the H. G. Wells classic. At least, not exactly. This story revolves around the historic Mercury Theatre radio presentation of The War......more

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