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    No Cure for Death
    No Cure for Death
    No Cure for Death
    Audiobook5 hours

    No Cure for Death

    Written by Max Allan Collins

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469248264
    No Cure for Death
    Author

    Max Allan Collins

    Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

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    • 3/5
      Another early book in the writing career of Max Allan Collins, written first chronologically, but published second in the Mallory series.

      It's a quick read, and generally pretty good, but as I said, it's early in the author's career, and while there are glimpses of greatness, the writing is somewhat adolescent. Not bad, but growing.
    • 5/5
      Collins' Mallory series is not as well known. He started writing this series in writer's workshops in 1969 and finally published it in the early 80's. Mallory is a college-age mystery writer in Iowa as the Vietnam War is winding down. There are five Mallory novels, including The Baby Blue Rip-Off (1983), No Cure for Death (1983), Kill Your Darlings 1984), A Shroud for Aquarius (1985), and Nice Weekend for a Murder 1986).

      In this volume. Mallory is at the bus station in Port City, Iowa, to meet a friend John on leave from military service in Southeast Asia. Mallory has been trying to strike up conversation with a blonde for about an hour when a man the size of Frankenstein threatens her. After an epic battle, he rescues the fair damsel and buys her a cup of coffee. Janet Taber tells him her life story. A few hours later, Mallory meets John's father, the sheriff, at an accident site and realizes the mangled blonde woman is the same one whose acquaintance he just made. Strange coincidence or perhaps someone wanted her dead and got her good and dead. The sheriff tells Mallory to butt out.
      He chases down leads and, in addition to meeting a woman who makes his jaw drop, finds that Janet was somehow tied into the wealthy family that runs the political life in the area. As Mallory scratches his head, the bodies and the suspects add up. An enjoyable mystery well worth reading. Collins has a real easy writing style that draws the reader in.
    • 3/5
      Another quick, fun mystery read from Collins. Certainly not as good as the Quarry books, but worth reading for Collins' fans. Our hero is a good guy who finds himself in a tangled web of murder & cover ups. There is a theme of racial equality that is a bit heavy handed, but not terrible.