Triple Play, Max Allan Collins
Triple Play, Max Allan Collins
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Triple Play
A Nathan Heller Casebook

Bestseller

Author: Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 5 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/17/2012

Synopsis

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 boss Bill Veeck to investigate the 1961 murder of a famous pinch hitter, whose private life will pull 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.

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, the basis for 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, and “The Last Lullaby.” His coffee-table book The History of Mystery received nominations for every major mystery award and Men’s Adventure Magazines won the Anthony. Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins. They have collaborated on seven novels and are currently writing the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mysteries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve

Nathan Heller is a great private investigator who has helped solve some of the most important cases in American history: Amelia Earhart's disappearance, Marilyn Monroe's death, the Lindbergh kidnapping, the McKinley assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing - okay, I made up Heller's involvement in t......more

Goodreads review by Louis

Max Allan Collins's hero Nathan Heller is my favorite series detective. Much of that is due to the fact that each book combines my favorite genre, the mystery, with detailed research in 1930s - 1960s America. Equally entertaining is Heller's wisecracking style; he is the perfect guide to the corrupt......more

Goodreads review by Glen

A collection of three Nate Heller tales of murder and mystery. The first one is about a famous kidnapping and a proto-serial killer, called The Lipstick Killer. The second involves Marilyn Monroe and the murder of a writer/poet, who was also a terrible drunk. The third is about the midget who played b......more

Goodreads review by Randy

Another winner from Max Allan Collins: three Nathan Heller pieces of longer length. DYING IN THE POST-WAR WORLD finds Heller getting back into the PI business after serving his country in WWII, a pregnant wife feeling less than glamorous, and looking into the "Lipstick Killer" case. KISSES OF DEATH st......more

Goodreads review by Susanne

This was an engaging collection of three real-life murders fictionalized to add Collins' detective to the mix. I prefer Collins' Quarry noir stories, but these totally entertained me and made me interested in the history of the real crimes. So if you like that sort of thing, I recommend this book to......more

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