| Triple Play: A Nathan Heller Casebook Contributor(s): Collins, Max Allan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1612180922 ISBN-13: 9781612180922 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014381644 |
| Series: Nathan Heller |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.60 lbs) 234 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since his introduction in 1983's True Detective, Chicago-based private eye Nathan Heller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the classic gumshoe is back in this collection of three novellas, all based on real cases of the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. In Dying in the Post-War World, Heller returns from combat to find his marriage a shambles and himself square in the middle of the notorious Lipstick Killer case of 1946. Kisses of Death follows the PI into the 1950s, when he is hired to guard Marilyn Monroe. The famous starlet's intellectual pursuits eventually take Heller to Greenwich Village and a grisly murder. And in Strike Zone, Heller is hired by zany baseball manager Bill Veeck to investigate the 1961 murder of a famous pinch hitter, whose private life will suck Nate into a dangerous new world of little people and big sins. With Triple Play, New York Times-bestselling author Max Allan Collins has pried back the lid of history to reveal the ugly, entertaining truth behind three of the twentieth century's most shocking crimes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Collins, Max Allan: - Max Allan Collins is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller historical thrillers; his other books include the New York Times bestseller Saving Private Ryan and the bestselling CSI series. His comics writing ranges from the graphic novel Road to Perdition, source of the Tom Hanks film, to long runs as scripter of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip and his own innovative "Ms. Tree." Collins is also a screenwriter and a leading Indie filmmaker. He lives in Iowa with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their son, Nathan. |