True Crime, Max Allan Collins
True Crime, Max Allan Collins
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True Crime

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/13/2011

Synopsis

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded mean¬ness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.Full of muscle and oozing Chicago’s tough-guy persona to the hilt, Max Allan Collins’ Nate Heller is the ultimate private investigator—in the ultimate P.I. town. Heller’s undercover search for a farmer’s-daughter-turned-gun-moll has him on the dusty Depression backroads of middle America, in the company of Ma Barker and her boys, Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis, and a very-much-still-alive Dillinger—whose outlandish plan to kidnap J. Edgar Hoover in downtown Chicago is one Heller tries to foil. Including appearances by fan dancer Sally Rand, boxer Barney Ross, and Heller’s “godfather,” Frank Nitti, True Crime is a relentless classic.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins has earned fifteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective and Stolen Away, and receiving the PWA life achievement award, the Eye. His graphic novel, Road to Perdition, which is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film starring Tom Hanks, was followed by two novels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. His suspense series include Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and Eliot Ness, and his numerous comics credits include the syndicated Dick Tracy and his own Ms. Tree. He has written and directed four feature films and two documentaries. His other produced screenplays include “The Expert,” an HBO World Premiere. His coffee-table book The History of Mystery received nominations for every major mystery award and Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony Award. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on seven novels and numerous short stories, and are currently writing the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steven on February 02, 2018

This author can write one hell of a detective novel. I really enjoyed it. I recomend this to all. Enjoy and Be Blessed. Diamond......more

Goodreads review by David on December 17, 2020

Nathan Heller, 1930's era (this time) private eye, is hired by a traveling salesman to follow his bride and discover whether she is being faithful or not. He soon learns that she is keeping company with a man who resembles, and reportedly claims to be, John Dillinger. As the plot thickens, Heller be......more

Goodreads review by Glen on September 01, 2022

Max Heller is hired by a man to tail his wife, whom is thought to be cheating. On closer look, the "wife" turns out to be a not-so former prostitute, and the guy turns out to be John Dillinger after plastic surgery. There's an elaborate scheme to fake Dillinger's death, and Heller finds himself smac......more

Goodreads review by Nooilforpacifists on September 27, 2017

As always, Collins packs about three plots-worth of material into his "Nathan Heller" novels. (Sally Rand? Genius.) But boring it ain't. Indeed, I was trying to see how he was going to get out of this book's twists and turns--but they mostly come down to Nathan Heller's screwups.......more

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