Triple Play

<p>Since his introduction in 1983s <i>True Detective</i>, Chicago-based private eye Nathan Heller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the classic gumshoe is back in this collection of three novellas, all based on real cases of the 1940s, a 50s, and a 60s. In <i>Dying in the Post-War World</i>, Heller returns from combat to find his marriage a shambles and himself square in the middle of the notorious Lipstick Killer case of 1946. <i>Kisses of Death</i> follows the PI into the 1950s, when he is hired to guard Marilyn Monroe. The famous starlets intellectual pursuits eventually take Heller to Greenwich Village and a grisly murder. And in <i>Strike Zone</i>, Heller is hired by zany baseball boss Bill Veeck to investigate the 1961 murder of a famous pinch hitter, whose private life will pull Nate into a dangerous new world of little people and big sins. With <i>Triple Play</i>, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Max Allan Collins has pried back the lid of history to reveal the ugly, entertaining truth behind three of the twentieth centurys most shocking crimes.</p>