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 Lindberghs 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, Hellernow a private detective, and considered an expert and insider on the Lindbergh caseis 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.
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Publication Date: 13 Sep 2011
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781612180908
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 Awardwinning 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 Mens 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.