Stolen Away, Max Allan Collins
Stolen Away, Max Allan Collins
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Stolen Away

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 16 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/06/2011

Synopsis

March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh’s inner circle, Heller investigates crooks, cranks, socialites, and psychics in a frustrating, fruitless attempt to solve the case.Max Allan Collins makes the crime that captivated a nation the focal point of yet another fascinating and thoroughly spellbinding foray into his world of histori¬cal crime fiction. Four years later, in 1936, Heller—now a private detective, and considered an expert and insider on the Lindbergh case—is hired by the governor of New Jersey in an eleventh-hour quest to determine the guilt or innocence of Bruno Hauptmann, who sits on death row convicted of the murder and kidnapping of the Lindbergh child.

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 David

The fifth in the Nate Heller series, this jumps right back to 1932 when Nate is still in the Chicago police. The Heller books are very well researched and cleverly insert him into major events - in this case the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and the follow up over the next 4 years. A very long bo......more

Goodreads review by Frank

This is the fifth book in Collins' Nate Heller historical crime novels. The book actually takes place in 1932, prior to the first book in the series, TRUE DETECTIVE, and then continues on past the events in the first three books to 1936 and beyond. This makes it a little difficult to read these book......more

Goodreads review by Steve

"Heller, isn't this getting a little Byzantine?" No, it's very Byzantine. Late in this book, Nate Heller gives his suggested solution to the crime that is at the center of Stolen Away. That solution is so complicated that it takes twenty pages. This prompts the question above from the Treasury ag......more

Goodreads review by Glen

Heller gets himself on the Lindbergh kidnapping case through a fluke. I've read a lot about this case, although I certainly don't consider myself an expert. This book parallels my thought that virtually nobody involved acted at all rationally. Nobody knew what they were doing. The whole thing was a c......more

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