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Assassins, executions, show trials and TRUE NOIR!
Max Allan Collins takes aim at the trials of Cermak’s killer, Giuseppe Zangara, and noted Chicago mobster Frank Nitti. He also provides insights into how this chapter of Nathan Heller’s first mystery defines the heroic detective in the future.
Chapter 7: Trial Run
Just three days after Chicago Mayor Cermak dies from an assassin’s bullet, the Bayfront Park Shooter is tried for attempted murder on four counts and sentenced to eighty years. But Heller knows there’s more to the story than a lunatic with a gun.
Chapter 6: Welcome to Miami, Mr. President
Chicago Mayor Cermak hopes to curry favor with President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt at a political rally in Miami’s Bayfront Park. But among the spectators is a hitman sent by a Chicago mob boss – and only Heller can stop him.
Assassination gone wrong? Things get wild in Miami.
Max Allan Collins explains why he takes Nate Heller in a direction so often avoided by other noir detectives – into the arms (and bedroom) of a virgin paramour.
Things get a little “spicy” when Nate goes to Tower Town.
Max Allan Collins explains why he takes Nate Heller in a direction so often avoided by other noir detectives – into the arms (and bedroom) of a virgin paramour.
Chapter 5: Tower Town and Magic City
Heller waits in the Dill Pickle Club to meet his new client, Mary Ann Beame – she’s a girl with a fist full of cash, a mysterious past, and plenty of dark secrets to share with the right guy.
Max takes a deep dive into TRUE NOIR’s 4th chapter.
Creator Max Allan Collins provides some background on how “The Outfit” operated during the Prohibition Era in Chicago and gives us a deeper look into “Tower Town”
Zinos-Amaro: TRUE NOIR is “spellbinding”
Author and critic Alvaro Zinos-Amaro calls TRUE NOIR: The Assassination of Anton Cermak “a spellbinding sonic re-imagining of the first installment in Max Allan Collins’s most celebrated series, the Nathan Heller casebooks.”
“TRUE NOIR an enjoyable listening experience.”
Bill Hunt, from the DIGITAL BITS website provides a detailed review of the sound design behind TRUE NOIR’s “fully immersive” audio experience and explains what sets this production apart from traditional, old-timey radio plays.
Chapter 4: Two New Clients
The day after Christmas, Heller takes a sleeper car to Atlanta on the Dixie Flyer, riding into a job that will put him at odds with the most powerful men in Chicago.
Heller’s holidays aren’t so great in TRUE NOIR’s third chapter.
Max Allan Collins provides some insights into the characters and events referred to in “Merry Christmas, Mr. Heller”
Max talks about the history behind “Visiting Hours”
Max Allan Collins talks about character development and some of the research he put into the second episode of TRUE NOIR: The Assassination of Anton Cermak – “Visiting Hours.”
Take a closer look at the history behind “The Nitti Raid”
Join author Max Allan Collins as he takes a closer look at the attempted murder of mob boss Frank Nitti by the Chicago police and mayor Anton Cermak.
Taylor Gonzales takes on TRUE NOIR
Taylor Gonzales, from the FIFTY SHADES OF TAY podcast reviews Act One of TRUE NOIR: The Assassination of Anton Cermak and provides his unique take on what it was like listening to his first “immersive audio drama.”
Chapter 3: Merry Christmas, Mr. Heller
Newly-minted private detective, Nathan Heller, runs three minutes late for his lunch with his uncle Louis and a distinguished guest, only to find out it’s just the first in a series of events with razor-thin margins of error. Is Heller up to the challenge?
Chapter 2: Visiting Hours
Heller, asleep in his one-room apartment at the Hotel Adams in Chicago, is rousted awake by an uninvited – and unwelcome – visitor. Who knew this would be the first in a series of unplanned meetings?
Chapter 1: The Nitti Raid
On a cold December day in 1932, and Chicago Police Detective Nathan Heller takes a ride that will change his career path, and his life, forever.
Order 42 orders more TRUE NOIR
The Order 42 podcast reviews Act One of TRUE NOIR and says that in addition to more than two dozen voice actors, the original music is also one of the stars of the show.