Elliot Ness Series By Max Allan Collins
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Overview: This series of novels is about real life Untouchable Eliot Ness’s career as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland.
01. The Dark City
After The Untouchables, Eliot Ness goes solo. In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al Scarface Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it’s 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of bent cops is dealing in vice, graft, gambling and racketeering, overlorded by a mysterious top cop known as the outside chief. But between corrupt politicians, jealous colleagues, a parasitic reporter and two blondes with nothing in common, Ness has big troubles pulling the sheets off the bed of blue vipers. Until the outside chief makes a move, and Ness moves just a bit quicker.
02. Butcher’s Dozen
THE UNTOUCHABLES HADNT PREPARED NESS FOR THIS
After slamming the door on Capone, Eliot Ness and the Untouchables became legend. Now that’s in the past, and Ness travels solo through Depression-ravaged America to clean up a battered town called Cleveland…a city in the firm grasp of fear. A rampaging madman has been on the loose for two years, a butcher who has already hacked up a dozen victims without leaving so much as a shred of evidence, with the exception of various, well-placed body parts. This case could cost Ness everything—his job, his reputation, his life—but he can’t rest until this brutal murderer is caught. With one rookie cop, a headline crazed reporter and a gorgeous woman who just doesn’t know when to quit, Ness goes undercover to hunt for an elusive killer who is almost as gifted with a knife as Ness is with a mystery.
03. Bullet Proff
THEY COULDN’T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM…
SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.
Cleveland’s a solid union town, but organized crime has put the squeeze on labor with an extortion ring that doesn’t stop at murder. Everyone’s on the take—everyone except Eliot Ness, who sets a brilliant trap for the big boys. Ness is no stranger to this city of steel and smoke, and the former Untouchable knows its secrets the way he knows the streets of Chicago. Ness is hell-bent on cleaning up his adopted home, but he’s a sitting duck for a triggerman with a tommy gun who plans to blow Ness and his pals sky high.
04. Murder By The Numbers
The legendary real-life lawman Eliot Ness is deservedly famous through the TV series and film The Untouchables, as the scourge of criminals in 1930s Chicago. Less well-known are his exploits in Cleveland, where he continued his crime-busting career. In Murder by the Numbers Max Allan Collins has combined fact and fiction to capture the excitement of Ness’s law enforcement triumphs in the Ohio city.
It is 1938, and Cleveland is threat-ened by a racially volatile gang war. The Mafia is moving in on the black mobsters who rule the Bucket of Blood, the notorious slum made famous by Chester Himes.
The conflict is more than just villains fighting over turf. The black gangsters, who have had a lock on the city’s numbers racket, have depended more on political connections and on the dreams they sold than on violence. It is the invaders who are bringing murder and mayhem in their wake.
As Director of Public Safety, Ness’s job is not only to put a lid on crime itself. He must tread with extreme care in order to forestall violent war between the rival mobsters, a war that could escalate into an explosion between Cleveland’s large black population and the almost entirely white police force and pols who rule the industrial city.
The balance is a delicate one and will require an individual both diplomatic and courageous. Collins realistically shows Ness to be that individual in this action-packed story rich with period flavor.
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