Mallory Serie

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1. The Baby Blue Rip-Off

   • Max Allan Collins

   • 178pagine
   • 7 ore di lettura

   Budding mystery writer Mallory was just trying to impress a politically correct girlfriend by delivering hot meals to little old ladies. The last thing he expected was to find his elderly charges such fascinating company, and when one sweet old gal meets an unexpectedly grisly fate, Mal sets out to find and stop the burglars who this time stole a life. The last thing the local sheriff needs, however, is a meddling civilian — even if the professions the young writer pursued before coming back home to sleepy Port City, Iowa, included reporter, soldier, and cop. But Mal’s weakness is the fairer sex, and when he’s distracted by a high-school flame who got away, he has to wonder if he’s been blonde-sided. Back on track seeking the killers, Mal finds out the hard way that a murder mystery in real life could close the book on him…forever.

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2. No Cure for Death

   • Max Allan Collins

   • 212pagine
   • 8 ore di lettura

   What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you're a guy like Mallory, it's the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With the help of a handy Pepsi bottle, Mallory saves the lady from the menacing lout, shares a heartfelt moment, and sees her safely off, wistfully wondering if they'll ever meet again. End of story? Not a chance. Even though it's Mallory's best buddy, John, who's visiting on leave from combat in Vietnam, it's Mallory who has a nasty flashback--when that same sweet blonde drops back into his life after losing hers. But how did she go from a bus out of town to a car at the bottom of a cliff? Why is her "accident" a dead ringer for the one that killed a scandal-scarred senator? And is local lawman Sheriff Brennan helping to hush things up? The questions are good ones, and Mallory wants answers--bad. But if he crosses the wrong people, things could get ugly....

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3. A Shroud for Aquarius

   • Max Allan Collins

   • 202pagine
   • 8 ore di lettura

   The sixties are dead...and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things--free spirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler--but first and foremost she was mystery writer Mallory's friend and confidant since childhood. So Mallory understands when Sheriff Brennan drags him out of bed in the dead of night and leads him to the last place he ever wanted to go: the scene of Ginnie's last breath. A dead woman clutching the gun that killed her may lead to an official ruling of suicide, but Mallory's not ruling out murder. Driven by a gaping hole in his heart and a fierce code of honor, he's willing to risk everything to close the book on this one. Then he'll throw the book with both hands at whoever wrote Ginnie's obituary in spilled blood. Once upon a time, Ginnie hurt Mallory deeply, and he wasn't the only one. But while he finally forgave her, the same can't be said for the trail of bitter lovers that stretches back to high school. Pounding the pavement from Port City to Iowa City to Vegas--with detours down memory lane along the way-- Mallory is forced to pull back the shroud on a life he only thought he knew... and never realized he couldn't save.

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