The Resource Better dead, Max Allan Collins
Better dead, Max Allan Collins
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The item Better dead, Max Allan Collins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Better dead, Max Allan Collins represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services).
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- It's the early 1950's. Joe 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 Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. When famous mystery writer Dashiell Hammett comes to Heller representing a group of showbiz and literary leftists who are engaged in a last minute attempt to save the Rosenbergs, Heller decides to take on the case. Heller will have to play both sides to do this, and when McCarthy also tasks Heller to find out what the CIA has on him, Heller reluctantly agrees. His main lead is an army scientist working for the C.I.A. who admits to Heller that he's been having misgivings about the work he's doing and elliptically referring to the Cold War making World War II look like a tea party. And then the scientist goes missing
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Isbn
- 9780765378286
- Label
- Better dead
- Title
- Better dead
- Statement of responsibility
- Max Allan Collins
- Subject
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- Heller, Nathan, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Fiction
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Fiction
- Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Fiction
- Scientists -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1901-1953 -- Fiction
- Cold War -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It's the early 1950's. Joe 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 Heller the wrong way. Not the least of which for successfully prosecuting the so-called Atomic Bomb spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. When famous mystery writer Dashiell Hammett comes to Heller representing a group of showbiz and literary leftists who are engaged in a last minute attempt to save the Rosenbergs, Heller decides to take on the case. Heller will have to play both sides to do this, and when McCarthy also tasks Heller to find out what the CIA has on him, Heller reluctantly agrees. His main lead is an army scientist working for the C.I.A. who admits to Heller that he's been having misgivings about the work he's doing and elliptically referring to the Cold War making World War II look like a tea party. And then the scientist goes missing
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Collins, Max Allan
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3553.O4753
- LC item number
- B48 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- The memoirs of Nathan Heller
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McCarthy, Joseph
- Rosenberg, Ethel
- Rosenberg, Julius
- Heller, Nathan
- Private investigators
- Scientists
- Nineteen fifties
- Cold War
- United States
- Label
- Better dead, Max Allan Collins
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780765378286
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- ocn898418947
- (OCoLC)898418947
- Label
- Better dead, Max Allan Collins
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 336 pages
- Isbn
- 9780765378286
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn898418947
- (OCoLC)898418947
Subject
- Heller, Nathan, (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Fiction
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 -- Fiction
- Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 -- Fiction
- Scientists -- Fiction
- United States -- History -- 1901-1953 -- Fiction
- Cold War -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
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