Max Allan Collins
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime book volume HCC-S06
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Now retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It's not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences--but coming after Quarry has consequences, too."--
2) Double down
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Veteran thieves Nolan and Jon discover that their flight home with their ill-gotten spoils is being skyjacked while a mob-connected family in Iowa believes the thieves and stop the plane from being rerouted for a six-figure fee.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This fully dramatized audio adventure with sound effects and music is a follow-up to The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 1, which was a finalist for the prestigious Audie® Award in 2009.
Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as "minor," and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman.
...4) Better dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins' most acclaimed series of novels (more than 1 million copies sold to date!), comes to Hard Case Crime for the first time in an all-new thriller drawn from the pages of history. A millionaire's son is kidnapped and private eye Heller is called in to help. But when half of the record $600,000 ransom goes missing, Heller must wade through a morass of deception and depravity to blow the lid off...
6) Do no harm
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Do No Harm, Nathan Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case --a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison. Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a "lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When Nathan Heller and his son are nearly run down on a city street, the private detective wonders if he himself...
Author
Series
Krista Larson novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, than two band members take a final bow. Both alleged suicides. A tragic way to go out. A bum way for one-hit wonders to be remembered. But it's Labor Day weekend. The show must go on. With replacements at the ready, the Pistons are back on home turf to headline the first ever Rock and Country Music Fest. Police Chief Krista Larson and her father,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, Nate Heller is there when Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Heller takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when a friend of his and Bobby's raises doubts about the LAPD's investigation. Heller strongly suspects the involvement of Jimmy Hoffa (currently imprisoned), but Hoffa seems to be in the clear as the private eye looks into the possible presence of CIA enemies of RFK's on the murder night, the apparent manipulation...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA'S GREAT CRIME EPIC. A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master"--author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner--teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of Devil in the White City and Furious Hours comes the haunting true story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case-his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the 1936 World Fair"--
12) Quarry's cut
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Nathan Heller novels volume 12
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1950, when a congressional investigation into organized crime sparks an all-out mob war that claims the life of his partner, private detective Nathan Heller returns to his native Chicago to find the killer.
14) Bye bye, baby
Author
Series
Nathan Heller novels volume 13
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hired by Marilyn Monroe to listen to threatening phone calls from a movie studio that wants to fire her, private investigator Nate Heller discovers a conspiracy to murder the iconic star and faces a career-ending challenge when Monroe turns up dead. Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women and desired by men. But she's also famously insecure and...
16) Quarry's list
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beautiful blonde in the swimming pool become a target?"--Back cover.
17) Quarry's deal
Author
Series
Publisher
Hard Case Crime, published by Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Behind the doors of an illegal casino, will Quarry find Lady Luck or a lady killer? As part of his plan to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn't a man at all -- she's a sloe-eyed beauty, as dangerous in bed as she is deadly on the job. Has Quarry finally met his match?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Eliot Ness novels volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
In 1938, Eliot Ness, the Director of Public Safety in Cleveland, was faced with containing a gang war as the Mafia tried to move in on the black gangsters of Cleveland.
Author
Series
Jack and Maggie Starr mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English