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Title: Kisses of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 1-885941-56-0 Publisher: Crippen & Landru Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Collins' detective hero sure gets around
Comment: I always like it when a book is a fast, breezy read, yet still has a lot of meat to it. That's certainly the case here: the stories in this collection are all fast-paced, entertaining mystery thrillers, but these "tall tales" are also laced with lots of authentic period description and accurate biographical details about the true-life crime, crime-fighting, or celebrity figures depicted. It was especially interesting to read about Nate Heller's "true encounter" with Eliot Ness, where we learn that Ness wasn't quite the white-bread hero depicted in Brian De Palma's admittedly terrific "The Untouchables". All in all, a vastly entertaining and informative read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Second Heller short story collection a winner
Comment: I've been a fan of Max Allan Collins' Nate Heller stories for years now, well more than a decade. Some time ago, in addition to the novels, Collins released Dying in the Postwar World, which was billed as a casebook. The current volume is a second one, and they're basically short story collections, though both times the author wrote a novella to round out the volumes. In this book, the novella provides the title.
If you've read my reviews of other Heller books, you know the drill. His big drawback is that you must accept this detective being involved in basically every significant crime in the 30s 40s and 50s, with the possibility that he'll carry it further. The last of the stories in this book takes place in the early 60s. Given that you can make the suspension of disbelief, this is a very fun series, and the stories are well-written. I especially enjoyed this second casebook, which includes several cases that I thought were interesting, and was especially well-written.
Heller gets involved in cases with Marilyn Monroe, Thelma Todd, Bill Veeck, Mickey Cohen, and so forth. Frankly, the characters he pulls out of obscurity are endlessly interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed this collection, so I won't ruin it for you by telling you anything more about what's in the book. Suffice to say, the author has a solution for every mystery in the book, and they're all plausible, as far as I can see.
To reiterate, this is a wonderful book. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Title: Chicago Confidential (Mysteries & Horror) by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0451208560 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Million - Dollar Wound by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743474635 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: True Detective (Frank Nitti Trilogy) by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743458966 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: True Crime by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743459008 Publisher: Ibooks Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Stolen Away by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0451202414 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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