The Lusitania Murders, Max Allan Collins
The Lusitania Murders, Max Allan Collins
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The Lusitania Murders

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 6 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/11/2012

Synopsis

The Lusitania’s final voyage is a newsman’s dream. First come the torpedo warnings. Then come the murders…Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards the Lusitania in pursuit of a hot story. Under the guise of conducting interviews with prominent passengers, his real assignment is to investigate rumors that the luxury liner is carrying illicit cargo for the British war effort against Germany.But Wright, traveling under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine, isn’t the only passenger with an ulterior motive. Hours after the ship receives torpedo threats, three German stowaways are found murdered. And Wright suspects the deaths are part of a larger conspiracy. Comparing clues and matching wits with Detective Philomina Vance, the pair must solve the murders before the killer can sabotage the entire ship. Recreating the days up to the ship’s fatal encounter with a German U-boat, The Lusitania Murders is historical fiction at its entertaining best.

About Max Allan Collins

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

Reviews

Goodreads review by Theda

The author introduces this book as being based on a fragment of a manuscript from SS Van Dine – a real life mystery writer. Whether this is a Van Dine memoir or fictional story is never known. Collins weaves around it a fact-based account of the Lusitania and her sinking and a fictional murder and m......more

Goodreads review by Juli

The Lusitania Murders is the 4th novel in The Disaster Series. In each book, Max Allan Collins expertly wraps a historical disaster with a fictional murder investigation, sending a famous person scrambling to solve the crime before all hell breaks loose. Previous stories have been aboard the Titanic......more

Goodreads review by Burkett W. Fleming

Excellent reading. It's easier to read then an actual book on the event. The Philip vance info was interesting as well.......more

Goodreads review by William

This is the 4th in Max Collin's Disaster Murder Series. The series combines historical facts mixed with fiction. All done very well. I love what he does with both.......more

Goodreads review by Mark

The 2nd of Max Allan Collins’ “Disaster Series” that I’ve read…Both have been perfect standalone novels so the order is unimportant…Art/Literature critic Willard Wright, under the pen name S.S. Van Dine, author of the Philo Vance mysteries is aboard the Lusitania on its tragic May of 1915 voyage…The......more

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