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Nathan Heller Series

19 primary works • 23 total works
As president of Chicago's A-1 Detective Agency, Nathan Heller has seen some grade-A corruption in his time. Working movie stars, mob bosses, and presidents directs Heller to some of the biggest national secrets and scandals of U.S. history. Heller's reputation is well known and well deserved. From Amelia Earhart's disappearance to Huey Long's assas…

Book 1

True Detective
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4.00 · 2103 Ratings · 175 Reviews · published 1983 · 23 editions
Nate Heller, an honest young plainclothes cop on t…

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    Book 2

    True Crime
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    4.15     · 884 Ratings · 80 Reviews · published 1984 · 17 editions
    Private detective Nathan Heller goes undercover in…

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    Book 3

    The Million Dollar Wound
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    4.17     · 702 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 1986 · 26 editions
    From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney …

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    Book 4

    Neon Mirage
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    4.15     · 572 Ratings · 47 Reviews · published 1988 · 20 editions
    Chicago, 1946. Gambling chief James Ragen is shot …

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    Book 5

    Stolen Away
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    4.06     · 618 Ratings · 59 Reviews · published 1991 · 17 editions
    A $50,000 ransom. No police involvement, or else.

    T…

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    Book 6

    Carnal Hours
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    4.00     · 518 Ratings · 33 Reviews · published 1994 · 21 editions
    For Chicago detective Nathan Heller, coming to the…

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    Book 7

    Blood and Thunder
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    4.06     · 441 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 1995 · 17 editions
    The place is Louisiana. The time is 1935. Huey Lon…

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    Book 8

    Damned in Paradise
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    4.05     · 413 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 1996 · 16 editions
    Nathan Heller has tackled the most notorious crime…

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    Book 9

    Flying Blind
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    3.96     · 560 Ratings · 61 Reviews · published 1998 · 20 editions
    The intrepid fictional Nathan Heller discovers the…

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    Book 10

    Majic Man
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    4.01     · 413 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 1999 · 20 editions
    Heller gets involved the alien case at Roswell.

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    Book 11

    Angel in Black
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    3.95     · 474 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 2001 · 18 editions
    In Los Angeles to help launch a West Coast branch …

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    Book 12

    Chicago Confidential
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    4.00     · 447 Ratings · 42 Reviews · published 2002 · 17 editions
    It's 1950, and P.I. Nathan Heller has returned hom…

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    Book 13

    Bye Bye, Baby
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    3.99     · 443 Ratings · 85 Reviews · published 2011 · 18 editions
    It’s 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatenin…

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    Book 14

    Target Lancer
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    3.99     · 327 Ratings · 59 Reviews · published 2012 · 20 editions
    Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, "P.I…

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    Book 15

    Ask Not
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    3.94     · 263 Ratings · 48 Reviews · published 2013 · 10 editions
    Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the na…

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    Book 16

    Better Dead
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    3.77     · 192 Ratings · 45 Reviews · published 2016 · 8 editions
    Nathan Heller tangles with Joe McCarthy in Max All…

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    Book 17

    Do No Harm
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    3.73     · 172 Ratings · 28 Reviews · published 2020 · 6 editions
    Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Hel…

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    Book 18

    The Big Bundle
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    4.25     · 215 Ratings · 73 Reviews · published 2022 · 7 editions
    True Crime detective Nathan Heller returns in a br…

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    Book 19

    Too Many Bullets
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    4.11     · 167 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 2023 · 6 editions
    Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, wh…

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    Dying in the Post-War World
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    3.93     · 56 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 1991 · 4 editions
    A collection of short stories features ex-cop-turn…

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    Kisses of Death
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    4.00     · 51 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2001 · 2 editions
    NATHAN HELLER, PRIVATE EYE!!! The private eye is a…

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    Chicago Lightning: The Collected Nathan Heller Short Stories
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    3.89     · 443 Ratings · 41 Reviews · published 2011 · 11 editions
    Tough, cynical, and clever, Nathan Heller has been…

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    Triple Play
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    3.96     · 233 Ratings · 25 Reviews · published 2012 · 13 editions
    Since his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, C…

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