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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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xix, 699 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"A Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master" -- teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America's most notorious gangster, and Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent whose extraordinary investigative work crippled his organization. Written with novelistic pacing and underpinned by groundbreaking research, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz's Scarface and the Untouchable...
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xii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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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"--
In 1934 Eliot Ness -- fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history -- arrived in Cleveland. In 1936 the city would host the Great Lake Exposition, which would be visited by...
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