Nathan Heller Books In Order

True Detective

The Return of the Shamus Award Winning Private Eye Novel by the Author of the Box Office Smash ROAD TO PERDITION! The First Volume in the Nathanial Heller ‘Frank Nitti Trilogy,’ Featuring the Real Life Mobster Played in the film by Stanley Tucci! Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: Prohibition era Chicago. When he won’t sell out, he’s forced to quit the force and become a private investigator. His first client is Al Capone. His best friend is Elliot Ness. His most important order of business is staying alive.

True Crime

An illustrated & informative history of the beginnings of organized crime as originally printed in the best selling trading card set. This book contains all the art & the complete text of series one of the controversial trading cards.

The Million-Dollar Wound

From a foxhole on Guadalcanal shared with Barney Ross to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the ’40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller’s blocking out. What he can’t block, though, is the wound he received the million dollar wound, the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss’ last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions. The homefront is every bit as violent as the war torn Pacific, and even the solace of Sally Rand can do nothing to ease Heller, who is haunted by the death of a friend in Guadalcanal, and surrounded by the mayhem of gangland murders.

Neon Mirage

When Nate Heller clears Bugsy Siegel of murder, the Chicago P.I. and brash, handsome gangster become unlikely friends…
and rivals in love. Bugsy invents modern Vegas, but receives bullets as his reward and Heller becomes his avenger.

Stolen Away

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 Lindbergh’s 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 historical crime fiction. Four years later, in 1936, Heller now a private detective, and considered an expert and insider on the Lindbergh case is 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. A novel of the Lindbergh kidnapping by the master of true crime fiction…
Don t miss it! Publishers Weekly

Carnal Hours

Written & Told by MAX ALLAN COLLINS

The murder of multimillionaire Sir Harry Oaks in Nassau has remained one of the twentieth century’s most baffling and bizarre mysteries until now. Max Allan Collins and his fictional sleuth, Nathan Heller, have finally cracked the Oakes case in a gripping thriller full of page turning surprises. Rich in authentic high life atmosphere, laced with wit, Carnal Hours is a riveting novel of sex, greed, and murder.

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Blood and Thunder

Collins’ fiction hero Nathan Heller returns to investigate the brutal assassination of one of the most charismatic and controversial political figures of our time. The place is Louisiana. The time is 1935 and Huey Long is the current U.S. Senator. From the posh parlors of New York’s upper crust, to the murky depths of Louisiana politics, Blood & Thunder boils with page turning excitement and the authentic atmosphere of 1930’s America. Once again Max Allan Collins presents a brilliant solution to a crime that still haunts a nation decades after the fact. Suspense fiction just doesn’t get any better.

Damned in Paradise

This eighth installment in the Nathan Heller series finds the detective teamed up with legendary attorney Clarence Darrow to help solve the infamous true life ‘Massie’ case one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th Century. In 1932 Hawaii, beautiful socialite Thalia Massie has been raped, and accuses a group of island natives for the crime. When one of the natives is murdered, presumably in revenge for this crime, members of Massie’s family are arrested and placed on trial. While Darrow defends the Massie family in one of the mostcontroversial trials of the century, Heller works to uncover what really happened in an environment rife with racial tension and intrigue! Damaned in Paradise has been nominated for a Shamus Award by thePrivate Eye Writers of America Max Allan Collins is a two time winner and seven timenominee of the Shamus Award This is the eighth installment of the highly acclaimed Nathan Heller series Based on the actual ‘Massie’ case, the subject of thebestselling novel, Blood and Orchids

Flying Blind

The most honored mystery series in the history of the Shamus AwardsIn this ingenious new novel in the Shamus Award winning series, detective Nathan Heller tries to solve the greatest mystery of the century the unexplained disappearance of Amelia Earhart…
‘One of Collins’ best…
a terrific novel of what really might have happened when Amelia Earhart disappeared.’ Detroit Free Press’Highly entertaining.’ Los Angeles Times’Compelling…
Collins, who has been nominated for an unequaled eight Shamus Awards, could be in line for number nine.’ Booklist’Buckle your seatbelt and get ready for a journey into a world of intrigue, espionage, betrayal and a rousing good time. Collins is at his best.’ Mostly Murder’An entertaining and pro vocative look at Earhart…
highly successful.’ Publishers Weekly Max Allan Collins has been nominated for the Shamus Award an unprecedented eight times for his Nathan Heller novels, and has won twice The new Nathan Heller novel, Majik Man, is available in hardcover from Dutton Available in Signet paperback: Carnal Hours, Blood and Thunder, Damned in Paradise

Majic Man

The nation is wrapped up in postwar Commie paranoia as Nathan Heller follows a lead from Washington, D.C. to a strange place called Roswell…
. Majic Man is…
‘A clear homage to Collins’s literary hero, Mickey Spillane. Four stars!’ Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine’A typically intelligent, witty and exciting examination of a real life mystery.’ Booklist ‘A unique story with which to entertain his readers. Recommended.’ Abilene Reporter News ‘Suspense coupled with an ingenious take on a pop historical touchstone…
refreshingly gritty.’ Publishers Weekly starred review

Angel in Black

The newspapers dubbed her The Black Dahlia. Nathan Heller knew her intimately as Elizabeth Short. To discover the identity of the fiend who destroyed her, Heller must lay bare the terrifying truth behind Hollywood’s make believe facade.

Chicago Confidential

It’s 1950, and P.I. Nathan Heller has returned home to Chicago, where a congressional probe into organized crime sparks an all out mob war with Heller’s partner among the victims. An astonishing mix of fact and fiction, this new Heller thriller features such notable characters as singer Frank Sinatra, mobster Sam Giancana, Senator Joe McCarthy, and Hollywood bombshell in the making, Jayne Mansfield.

Kisses of Death

NATHAN HELLER, PRIVATE EYE!!! 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.