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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCollins, Max Allan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCollins, Max Allan.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSpillane, Mickey
Summary: In a tale completed from an unfinished Spillane outline, Mike Hammer rescues a young hospital messenger from drug-connected muggers in 1960s Manhattan and teams up with the beautiful Velda to tackle the illicit narcotics scene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPISpillane, Mickey
Summary: After preventing the violent robbery of two college sweethearts who stumbled onto a priceless archaeological find, P.I. Mike Hammer takes on Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists out to seize the relic for their own purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPISpillane, Mickey
Summary: When a missing well-known New York party girl turns up dead astride the statue of a horse in the town square, Hammer feels compelled to investigate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPISummary: A collection of crime tales includes contributions by Harley Jane Kozak, Jeffrey Somers, Elaine Viets, Max Allan Collins and Mickey Spillane, Martin Meyers, and Charlaine Harris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CRISpillane, Mickey
Summary: Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge; he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his return to stand charges, and various government...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2013
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Summary: Returning to 1970s New York to investigate an old friend's alleged suicide, Mike Hammer is drawn into a hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds and a beautiful missing woman who had been close to the victim in his final days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011