Seduction of the Innocent

Name: Seduction of the Innocent
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Max Allan Collins
ISBN: 9781469262789

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 02/19/2013

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books—especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own—leaving his opponents in hot water.Can Jack Starr, private eye to the funny-book industry, and his beautiful boss Maggie unravel the secret of Dr. Frederick's gruesome demise? Or will the crackdown come, falling like an executioner's axe.…?

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 20, 2013

Max Allan Collins has provided some wish fulfillment for fan boys via historical revision by killing off one the great villains in comic book history, Dr. Fredric Wertham. Well, I mean, he kinda sorta kills him off. In 1954 the comic book business is getting a black eye from public minded do-gooders......more

Goodreads review by Josh on October 17, 2016

SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT is the third installment in the Maggie and Jack Starr mysteries in which the duo tackle the war on comics lodged by Dr. Werner Frederick who sees comics as a pathway to violence for the impressionable youth of America circa 1954. With the imminent publication of a book cond......more

Goodreads review by Randy on December 02, 2012

Jack and his stepmother Maggie Starr are back in their third mystery tale. This one has the anti-comic crusades of the fifties as the inspiration. Unlike Mr. Collins' other historical mystery/thrillers, this series doesn't blend real characters with his fictional ones, instead opting for a, sort of......more

Goodreads review by PopcornReads - MkNoah on February 26, 2013

Book Review & Giveaway: When the publisher approached me about reading and possibly reviewing Seduction of the Innocent by bestselling author Max Allan Collins, I took one look at the book cover and thought, “Oh no. This is sooo not my kind of book.” Luckily, I stepped back from that first impressio......more

Goodreads review by Brian on January 10, 2015

It was in the author's afterword and acknowledgements that I learned that the heroes of Seduction of the Innocent, Max Allan Collins' roman à clef about the comic book controversy started by Dr. Fredric Wertham with his 1954 book of the same name, had been featured in two previous novels. With this......more