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This eighth installment in the Nathan Heller series finds the detective teamed up with legendary attorney Clarence Darrow to help solve the infamous true-life "Massie" case--one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th Century. In 1932 Hawaii, beautiful socialite Thalia Massie has been raped, and accuses a group of island natives for the crime. When one of the natives is murdered, presumably in revenge for this crime, members of Massie's family are arrested and placed on trial. While Darrow defends the Massie family in one of the mostcontroversial trials of the century, Heller works to uncover what really happened in an environment rife with racial tension and intrigue! * Damaned in Paradise has been nominated for a Shamus Award by thePrivate Eye Writers of America
* Max Allan Collins is a two-time winner and seven-timenominee of the Shamus Award
* This is the eighth installment of the highly-acclaimed Nathan Heller series
* Based on the actual "Massie" case, the subject of thebestselling novel, Blood and Orchids
Amazon.com Review
Collins' books about Nathan Heller are great fun, mixing history and mystery into a jaunty stew. The latest finds Heller on his way to Hawaii to help lawyer Clarence Darrow on his last case -- defending a bizarre bunch of murderers in the notorious Massie affair. Using the actual facts of the case (a young Navy wife with social connections claimed she was kidnapped and raped by five young men in Honolulu in 1932; when the men were acquitted, her husband and her mother kidnapped one of the accused and killed him while trying to extract a confession), Collins recreates with considerable skill the natural beauty of the setting and the racial tensions of the time. Darrow comes to sad, vivid life as an aging lion at the end of his career, while other real characters like swimmer Buster Crabbe and the Chinese detective who was the model for Charlie Chan mix with Heller and other lively inventions.
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