Synopses & Reviews
Till death do us part...
Marcy Addwatter killed her husband there's no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too.
But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree Ms. Michael Tree sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave...and digging up her own murdered husband's.
Based on the longest-running private-eye comic book series of all time, Deadly Beloved brings you an all-new adventure of the legendary Ms. Tree the groundbreaking female P.I. who put the "graphic" into graphic novel...
Review
"Violent and volatile and packed with sexuality...classic pulp fiction." USA Today
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"Collins' witty, hard-boiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud." Entertainment Weekly
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"As cool as an Eskimo Pie on a hot summer day and as sharp as a Ginsu knife." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Synopsis
In this first novel to star the heroine of the popular and longest-running private-eye comic book series of all time, Ms. Tree investigates a desperate housewife manipulated into murdering her husband. Soon, however, Ms. Tree discovers the truth about her own husbands brutal murder years earlier.
About the Author
Author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie starring Paul Newman and Tom Hanks, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries, Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the hardboiled field today. He is also a filmmaker whose work includes "Shades of Noir," "Real Time," and the documentary "Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane."