The Mallory Series - Max Allan Collins Audiobook

Written by Max Allan Collins
Read by Dan John Miller
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Baby Blue Rip-Off
Length: 04hrs 33min

Mallory was bored: ex-cop, Vietnam vet, struggling writer - and nothing happening in his life now. So, reluctantly, he agrees when a girlfriend asks him to deliver meals to housebound, elderly women. It’s something to do, after all, and as it turns out, his house calls turn into a pleasant surprise. The ladies find him charming and the stories they tell, their memories of the small Iowa town, are fascinating. Mallory discovers that he’s having fun.

Then he discovers that one of his clients has been murdered and the fun ends … with a sharp blow to Mallory’s skull. Now he isn’t bored, he’s angry. So angry, that when the sheriff tells him to stay out of it, Mallory enters the fray with a vengeance!

No Cure for Death
Length: 05hrs 12min

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….

Kill Your Darlings
Length: 05hrs 36min

Mallory is back and facing a two-fisted whodunit: Who’s responsible for the just-discovered “lost novel” by the celebrated author of The Maltese Falcon? Is it the master, Dashiell Hammett, himself, or a very cunning counterfeiter? And who’s behind the shocking, suspicious demise of Roscoe Kane, a hard-drinking, hard-boiled crime-novel pioneer? Aptly enough, this one-two punch of a puzzle is the talk of Bouchercon, the famed convention where mystery scribes gather to honor (and murder?) their own members.

But Mallory may be the only one who’s tired of talking. He’s got a heavy-duty hunch, a hotel full of suspects, and a hard lesson to teach…namely, you don’t mess with a man’s heroes. Chicago’s dark side may be no place for armchair detectives, but Mallory’s no stranger to true crime. And before he leaves the Windy City, he means to strike more than a few blows in defense of his fallen comrades…and against the evil that men do.

A Shroud for Aquarius
Length: 05hrs 35min

Mystery writer Mallory was a precocious reader as a youth and for years shared the thoughts spawned by great books with his high school friend Ginnie Mullens. But the two lost touch as adults although they lived in the same small Iowa town. Nevertheless, Mal is troubled by Ginnie’s apparent suicide and agrees to help the police chief, sub rosa.

Tracing her life back from her recent business success to her ’60s-style rebellion, Mal is saddened to uncover gambling and drug trafficking in Ginnie’s history, a history some of her associates would persuade him to leave alone. His investigation, however, also uncovers another former schoolmate, this one grown into a beautiful and engaging woman. Mallory, met before in No Cure for Death and Kill Your Darlings, is a likable, brave and sensitive fellow who has believable and entertaining adventures.

Nice Weekend for a Murder
Length; 04hrs 33min

Invited to a mystery weekend at a rambling northern resort, mystery novelist Mallory sees what he believes to be a real murder and investigates–finding no body, blood, or evidence in the snow. But as the snowstorm cuts off the remote resort from the rest of the world, Mallory discovers that the murder was real–and the murderer is still around.