The private eye is as American as mom, apple pie — and gangsters and bootlegging. A child of the Roaring Twenties and the Depression Thirties, he is a genuine American hero with his poetic slang and his attempt to make things right as he goes down Mean Streets.
Max Allan Collins has recreated the great era of the P.I. in Nathan Heller. "I wanted to do the traditional P.I.," Collins writes in his introduction to Kisses of Death, "the tender tough guy in the trenchcoat and fedora with a bottle of wry in his bottom desk drawer. I didn't want to update him, and I didn't want to plop him down in contemporary times like a drunk who fell off a time machine." In novels and short stories, Collins has traced Heller's changes, and America's changes from the early thirties to the sixties, and in doing so has received a record nine Private Eye Writers of America "Shamus" nominations for his the series, winning twice. Each story investigates a genuine unsolved crime of the past.
Kisses of Death contains the previous unpublished title novella, in which Heller becomes associated with Marilyn Monroe and solves the famous Bodenheim murders. In other stories, he finds a solution to the death of actress Thelma Todd, becomes associated with Eliot Ness, and discovers who killed the midget that Bill Veeck had come to bat in a major league baseball game.
The book includes a new introduction and afterward by the author, and a Max Allan Collins checklist.
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Book Description Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Signed and Numbered. 178-250 SIGNED Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers. Seller Inventory # 86694
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Limited Edition, Number 23 of 250 signed by Collins on the limitation page. Includes, as a separate gathering sewn into the book, 'Heaven and Heller' by Collins and Ray Gotto. Jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # D100568
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine+. Limited Edition. A beautiful Limited edition (limited to 250 copies, this one being number 172) in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Max Allan Collins directly on the limitation page; Kisses of Death is the first in the Max Allan Collins series set in the world of the supernatural detective, Ericson. The novel introduces readers to Jack Kerouac, a private eye in the city of Angels who teams up with FBI agent Carlos Montoya to solve a series of murders that seem to be connected to a powerful and ancient artifact.; 8vo; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 16466