First edition, first printing hardback. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Signature obtained at Eyecon '98 in St. Louis. From the seller's private collection. Fine in Fine jacket. Unread, as new. Faintest discoloration to top, does not affect text. Have to look close to even see it, but we strive to be accurate. A beautiful copy, possibly the nicest one extant.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

NEON MIRAGE

Publisher

St. Martin's Press, 1988

Publication Date

1988

Language

English

ISBN 10

0312014848

ISBN 13

9780312014841

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

Signed

Signed by Author(s)

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Crime Fiction

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Synopsis

When the man he had been hired to protect, gambling chief James Ragen, is murdered, Nate Heller, a detective in 1946 Chicago, finds other lives in danger, including that of the woman he loves

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The fourth chronicle of Collins's Nate Heller (True Detective et seq.) is set in Chicago and Las Vegas in 1946. When a gangster shoots the private detective's client, gambler James Ragen, Heller assigns himself to investigate the case. During his sleuthing, Heller meets and falls in love with Ragen's niece, Peggy Hogan. She's one of the few fictional characters in the nostalgic story that features real people and parallels actual incidents of the times. The assault on Ragen is a minor part of the events when Heller and Peggy become involved with Ben ("Bugsy") Siegel, Virginia Hill and other notorious mob figures in Las Vegas. Generating suspense, the author describes Siegel's murder with the detective at the scene and details the shaky beginnings of the Flamingo Hotel, Siegel's unrealized dream of a luxury mecca for gamblers. There is such immediacy in narrator Heller's voice that the reader doesn't need the afterword about the novel's historic base.
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