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(0)Max Allan Collins
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"There has never been a full-length biography of Mickey Spillane, the most popular and influential mystery writer of his era--until now. Beginning in 1947 with I, the Jury, and continuing with his next six novels, Spillane quickly amassed a readership in the tens of millions, becoming the bestselling novelist in the history of American publishing. Surrounded by controversy for the overt violence and suggestive sexual content of his iconic Mike Hammer...
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Quarry novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Crime fiction readers know Quarry-the ruthless killer for hire from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels-but where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the bestselling author of Road to Perdition takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful young students is the least of his sins.
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Quarry novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
Description
The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hit man into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one-why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care? On the thirtieth anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Language
English
Description
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Road to Perdition" comes two related novellas collected in one volume for the first time. Includes all-new Afterword by the author. Original.
"They don't come tougher than Nolan--but even a hardened professional thief can't fight off the entire Chicago mafia. So when an old friend offers to broker a truce, Nolan accepts the terms. All he has to do it pull off one last heist--and trust the Mob not to...
13) Do no harm
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's 1954 and 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 narrative...
16) Quarry's blood
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Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Language
English
Description
When a true crime novelist announces he's the subject of her next book, Quarry, a professional hitman, must journey into his bloody past to settle old scores as killers come out of the woodwork bent on revenge.
17) Quarry's climax
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Hard Case Crime edition.
Language
English
Description
Memphis, 1975. "Raunchy" doesn't begin to describe Max Climer's magazine, Climax, or his all-hours strip club, or his planned video empire. And evangelists, feminists, and local watchdog groups all want him out of business. But someone wants more than that, and has hired a killer to end Max's career permanently. Only another hit man - the ruthless professional known as Quarry, star of the acclaimed series on Cinemax - can keep Climer from becoming...
18) The big bundle
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c2022.
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First Hard Case Crime edition.
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English
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Detective Nathan Heller exposes a crime with potential ties to Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa in 1968 when he is called in to help during the kidnapping of a millionaire's son and half the ransom money goes missing.
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[2020]
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English
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"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"--
20) Ask not
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"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...
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