Boston Blackie: Bloody Shame

Boston Blackie #1

by Stefan Petrucha, Kirk Van Wormer (Illustrator), Chris Burnham (Illustrator)

Suave safe-cracker/ex-con, Boston Blackie is misunderstood... a lot. This new TPB contains two full-length features: A jewel heist goes horribly wrong, and a five-year-old boy disappears and is presumed dead. All fingers point to Boston Blackie. The body is never found, and seven years later, BB is still haunted by what happened that night. A woman from Blackie's past comes to him for help. Her son is sitting on death row for a murder she knows he did not commit. Quickly getting himself some short time, Blackie finds that the rotten warden may have a hand in the man's execution.

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 2, 2002

About the author

Stefan Petrucha (born January 27, 1959) is an American writer for adults and young adults. He has written graphic novels in the The X-Files and Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction and horror.
Born in the Bronx, he has spent time in the big city and the suburbs, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, fellow writer Sarah Kinney, and their daughters. At times he has been a tech writer, an educational writer, a public relations writer and an editor for trade journals, but his preference is for fiction in all its forms.

Reviews

[Rex Hurst · Rating 4 out of 5]

Based on the character from the 1930s novels of Jack Boyle, this book, originally published ion the 1990s, tells the story of Boston Blackie a career criminal who exclusively preys upon the horrible rich. He is just released from prison after a heist gone wrong due to his opium addiction, Blackie has to put the pieces back together to discover what happened and if he is in fact a murderer. An excellent piece of noir fiction.