Bombshell by Max Collins (pdf ebook reader TXT) 📕

have accumulated a large library of Marilyn Monroe material, and drew upon many books and periodicals for her characterization. The key books used were: The Unabridged Marilyn, Her Life from A to Z (1987), Randall Riese and Neal Hitchens; Marilyn Monroe, In Her Own Words (1983), Roger Taylor; Marilyn Monroe, The Biography (1993), Donald Spoto; Legend, The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe (1984), Fred Lawrence Guiles; The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Monroe (1974), Robert F. Slatzer; Goddess, The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe (1985), Anthony Summers; The Marilyn Encyclopedia (1999), Adam Victor; and Timebends (1987), Arthur Miller.

Background for Jack Harrigan was drawn from The United States Secret Service (1961), Walter S. Bowen and Harry Edward Neal; and The Death Dealers (1960), Phil Hirsch.

Sources for the characterization of Walt Disney and the depiction of Disneyland included numerous contemporary magazine accounts, various Internet web pages, and the following books: The Art of Walt Disney (1973), Christopher Finch; Disney’s World (1985), Leonard Mosley; and Walt Disney, Hollywood’s Dark Prince (1993), Marc Eliot. In addition, the DVD set Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland USA (2001)—featuring documentaries hosted, produced, and written by Leonard Maltin—was particularly helpful, including interview material with Disney himself discussing the Khrushchev/Disneyland controversy. Walt Disney did have an apartment over the fire station in Disneyland, and was indeed planning a Khrushchev in Disneyland feature film; but certain liberties were taken here with the park and its geography, for storytelling purposes.

Other helpful sources included: His Way, The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra (1986), Kitty Kelley; Out With the Stars: Hollywood Nightlife in the Golden Era (1985), Jim Heimann; and Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945–1970 (1999), Ken Smith.

The authors wish to thank their agent, Dominick Abel. This book has been a long time coming, and readers who have heard about the project have occasionally inquired about when it might arrive; we hope—as was the case when Marilyn Monroe finally walked onto a soundstage—it will have been worth the wait.

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Legendary lawman Eliot Ness goes solo… In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al Scarface Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city.

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About The Authors

Max Allan Collins was named a Grand Master in 2017 by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” award, receiving the PWA “Eye” for Life Achievement (2006) and their “Hammer” award for making a major contribution to the private eye genre with the Nathan Heller saga (2012).

His innovative Quarry novels were adapted as a 2016 TV series by Cinemax. His other suspense series include Eliot Ness, Krista Larson, Reeder and Rogers, and the “Disaster” novels. He has completed twelve “Mike Hammer” novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane; his audio novel, Mike Hammer: The Little Death with Stacy Keach, won a 2011 Audie.

For five years, he was sole licensing writer for TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (and its spin-offs), writing best-selling novels, graphic novels, and video games. His tie-in books have appeared on the USA TODAY and New York Times bestseller lists, including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster.

Collins has written and directed four features and two documentaries, including the Lifetime movie "Mommy" (1996) and “Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane” (1998); he scripted "The Expert," a 1995 HBO World Premiere and “The Last Lullaby” (2009) from his novel The Last Quarry. His Edgar-nominated play "Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life" (2004) became a PBS special, and he has co-authored two non-fiction books on Ness, Scarface and the Untouchable (2018) and Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher (2020).

BARBARA COLLINS made her entrance into the mystery field as a highly respected short story writer with appearances in over a dozen top anthologies, including Murder Most Delicious, Women on the Edge, Deadly Housewives and the best-selling Cat Crimes series. She was the co-editor of (and a contributor to) the best-selling anthology Lethal Ladies, and her stories were selected for inclusion in the first three volumes of The Year’s 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories.

As “Barbara Allan,” she and her husband Max Allan Collins write the long-running “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mystery series. Their Antiques Flee Market (2008) won the Romantic Times “Best Humorous Mystery Novel” award of 2009. They have also appeared under their joint byline in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.

The Collins’s first novel together, the Baby Boomer thriller Regeneration, was a paperback bestseller; their second collaborative novel, Bombshell – in which Marilyn Monroe saves the world from World War III – was published in hardcover to excellent reviews. Both are back in print from Thomas & Mercer under their “Barbara Allan” byline.

Two acclaimed hardcover collections of Barbara’s work have been published – Too Many Tomcats and (with her husband) Murder - His and Hers, with a follow-up, Suspense – His and Hers – coming from Wolfpack, who are bringing out the previous collections as well.

Barbara also has been the production manager and/or line producer on several of Max’s independent film projects, including Mommy (1995), Mommy’s Day (1997), Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market (2001) and Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life (2005).

The writing duo lives in their native Muscatine, Iowa. Their son, Nathan, is a Japanese-to-English translator with numerous books, manga and video games to his credit. Barb divides her time between writing and providing Day