A Killing in Comics
Berkley Pub Group
May 1, 2007
ISBN-13: 042521365X
Available in: Trade Size
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A Killing in Comics
by Max Allan Collins
A cutting-edge mystery novel that combines the illustrations of Batman artist Terry Beatty with a New York Times bestelling author.
Manhattan, 1948. America's most famous ex-striptease artist, glamorous Maggie Starr, now runs her late husband's newspaper syndicate, distributing the Wonder Guy comic strip. Wonder Guy, soaring superhero, represents all that is good about postwar America. But when the cartoon character's publisher winds up dead, Maggie finds herself working with her stepson Jack Starr (also her V.P. and chief troubleshooter) to find a killer among cartoonists, wives, mistresses and minions of a different sort of "syndicate"—suspects with motives that are anything but superheroic.
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Max Allan Collins' Bio
Max Allan Collins is the author of the New York Times bestseller Saving Private Ryan. He is also the author of the Nathan Heller historical detective series, four novels about Eliot Ness and a number of true- crime novels. A multiple Shamus award-winner, an Edgar® nominee, and an award-winning screenwriter, Collins wrote the syndicated comic strip "Dick Tracy" from 1977 through 1993. He lives in Iowa, where he is also an accomplished filmmaker.