Nice Weekend for a Murder - Hardcover

Collins, Max Allan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802756565 ISBN 13: 9780802756565

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1986

Synopsis

Invited to take part in a mystery weekend at Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York, Mallory is not sure whether the murder he witnesses from his window has been staged

About this title

About the Author:

Max Allan Collins is the New York Times best-selling author of Road to Perdition and multiple award-winning novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and historical fiction. He has scripted the Dick Tracy comic strip, Batman comic books, and written tie-in novels based on the CSI, Bones, and Dark Angel TV series; collaborated with legendary mystery author Mickey Spillane; and authored numerous mystery series including Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, Eliot Ness, and the bestselling Nathan Heller historical thrillers. His additional Mallory novels include No Cure for Death, The Baby Blue Rip-Off, Kill Your Darlings, and A Shroud for Aquarius.

From Publishers Weekly:

Mystery-writer and -writing lore pervade this new effort by the author of A Shroud for Aquarius. Crime writer Mallory is invited to a mystery weekend at Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York. As in real-life Mohonk mystery weekends, crime writers and fans are "suspects" and detective teams. The "victim" is to be a nasty, powerful critic who is thoroughly disliked. He storms out in a snit during the first session, and later that night when Mallory looks out of the window in his room, he sees the critic apparently being murdered. There are no other witnesses and no corpse so Mallory wonders if the killing is a hoax or part of the mystery weekend program. When Mallory and his girlfriend Jill find the critic's body the next day atop the mountain, a blizzard prevents their contacting the police. Mallory begins his sleuthing that climaxes in a snowbound, classic confrontation with everyone in dinner clothes. Adepts will spot the solution just ahead of Mallory, the mystery-within-a-mystery is a snap, and Mallory's quips wear thin.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0802756565
• ISBN 13: 9780802756565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190