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Zusatztext "Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller." - Jeffery Deaver "Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality...classic pulp fiction." - USA Today "Collins' witty! hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud." - Entertainment Weekly "Max Allan Collins blends fact and fiction like no other writer." - Andrew Vachss "Collins makes it sound as though it really happened." - New York Daily News "Few people alive today can tell a story better than Max Allan Collins. SEDUCTION OF THE INNOCENT is a great! page-turning read that is beautiful to look at and serves as another proud addition to the Hard Case Crime library." – Bookreporter “A solid tale of crime! greed! and murder with a tasty dash of sequential art history in the mix.” – Fanboy Comics “Everything I would ever want in a detective novel.” – Geek Hard “When a book manages to keep me reading from beginning to end! I consider it a job well done! but when I sit there for hours on end reading because I can’t put it down! that’s when I consider a book truly good and Seduction of the Innocent falls happily in that second category.” – Geekenstein “A fast read! hedged by a bevy of hilarious characters and culminating in a delicious ‘whodunit.’” – Noir Whale “Any fan of noir! pulp fiction or comic books will appreciate Seduction of the Innocent.” – Pop Cults “Hats off to Max Allan Collins for this phenomenally entertaining piece of historical fiction! and Terry Beatty! for the classic! inspired EC style art work.” – Comic Hype Informationen zum Autor Max Allan Collins is the bestselling! award-winning author of Road to Perdition ! the graphic novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie starring Paul Newman and Tom Hanks! and of the acclaimed Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. Also a filmmaker himself! Collins' films include the documentary Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane . Terry Beatty is the popular comic book and newspaper comic strip illustrator who! together with Max Allan Collins! created Ms. Tree ! the longest-running private eye comic series in comics history. Beatty's work has also graced numerous other comics! including Batman ! and has appeared in magazines such as Scary Monsters . Most recently he was named the newest illustrator of the long-running comic strip The Phantom ! and collaborated with Max Allan Collins on the graphic novel Return to Perdition ! sequel to Road to Perdition . Klappentext It's 1954! and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books--especially the gory and bloody sort published by the bad boys at EF Comics. But the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own--leaving his opponents in hot water. Zusammenfassung It's 1954! and a critic has declared war on comic books! campaigning to get them banned - especially the scary! gory! bloody sort. But the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own. Can Jack Starr! private eye to the funny-book industry! and his beautiful boss Maggie! unravel the secret of Dr Frederick's gruesome demise? ...
