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True Detective

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

In the mob-choked Chicago of 1932, private detective Nathan Heller may be willing to risk his life to earn a Depression dollar, but he never sacrifices his sardonic wit. Now, author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) reissues the contemporary classic that introduces the wise-cracking Nathan Heller in all his guts and glory. When Mayor... Read more »

True Crime

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.

Full of muscle and oozing Chicago’s... Read more »

The Million-Dollar Wound

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

Chicago P.I. Nate Heller returns home from duty in Guadalcanal a decorated, damaged, and dangerous hero—and drops directly from one war into another: the gangland coup to topple Frank Nitti as he tries to strong-arm the Hollywood unions. Read more »

Neon Mirage

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but he’s in for the biggest surprise of his career. Demonstrating once... Read more »

Stolen Away

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh’s inner circle, Heller investigates crooks, cranks, socialites, and psychics in a frustrating, fruitless... Read more »

Carnal Hours

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

In July 1943, Nate Heller flies to Nassau where multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes wants dirt dug up on Count De Marigny, the playboy who has married Harry’s beautiful, underage daughter, Nancy. But the investigation has barely begun when Sir Harry turns up dead in bed—burned to death in a real-life locked-room mystery—and Heller is soon working... Read more »

Blood and Thunder

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

Presidential candidate—and force of nature—Huey Long, the “Kingfish,” is in fear for his life. After Nathan Heller delivers the former Louisiana governor a bulletproof vest, the Kingfish hires the Chicago private eye to investigate death threats from political rivals. Soon Heller runs head-on into an IRS investigation seeking millions skimmed... Read more »

Damned in Paradise

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

On leave from the Chicago police department, Nate Heller goes to Hawaii to help family friend Clarence Darrow by investigating the rape and murder of a bride only to uncover a morass of bigotry, lies, and revenge. Read more »

Flying Blind

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

For Chicago P.I. Nate Heller, guarding Amelia Earhart against death threats has its side benefits. But when Amelia goes missing in the South Pacific, Heller mounts a one-man search that will lead to success, heartbreak…and revenge. Read more »

Majic Man

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli agents, and a mysterious military group called the Majestic Twelve in his journey to protect Forrestal. With his... Read more »

Angel in Black

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Los Angeles. The City of Angels. The perfect place for a honeymoon…and the worst possible time for a murder.

Vacationing private investigator Nate Heller finds himself a suspect in the LAPD’s investigation of the notorious Black Dahlia murder case. Problem is the butchered starlet, Elizabeth Short, is an old Chicago flame of Heller’s—and only the... Read more »

Chicago Confidential

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

Caught between the Kefauver Organized Crime investigation and his reluctant ties to the mafia, Chicago P.I. Nate Heller keeps his head down—until an honest cop and a lovely drug addict are murdered, and he decides it’s time for some rough justice. Read more »

Bye Bye, Baby

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

Marilyn Monroe, the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, is at the peak of her popularity, internationally famous, universally admired by women and desired by men. But she’s also famously insecure and temperamental and is being pilloried in the press for delaying the production of Something’s Got to Give. When the head of Twentieth Century Fox... Read more »

Target Lancer

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a lightning rod for public opinion. The handsome, youthful leader, who is prepared to take America into a brighter future, earns love from cheering crowds. But those who oppose his political agenda — including some who consider themselves betrayed by the Kennedy clan — dare to think the unthinkable: kill an... Read more »

Ask Not

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No

Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a " lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak of suicides, accidental deaths, and outright murders decimates assassination witnesses. When... Read more »

Better Dead

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

It's the early 1950's. Ju McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffer, Bobby Kennedy, while trading barbs with a potential enemy, the attorney Roy Cohn, who rubs... Read more »

Do No Harm

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Heller series by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. Its 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard casea young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed... Read more »

Chicago Lightning

By: Max Allan Collins
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

With his cynical humor and knack for keen social observation, Chicago PI Nathan Heller narrates this engaging collection of 13 crime stories based on real cases from the 1930s and ’40s. Read more »

Triple Play

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No

Since his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, 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, ’50s, and ’60s.

In Dying in the... Read more »