No Cure for Death (A Mallory Novel), by Max Allan Collins
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What’s a good mystery story without a beautiful blonde to set things in motion? When the femme sharing a bench with Mallory in the Port City, Iowa, bus station is accosted by a scar-faced, one-eyed thug, the aspiring writer stops minding his own business and leaps into the fray with nothing but his fists and a well-aimed Pepsi bottle. Once the dust clears, the battered brute flees, and the damsel is saved, Mallory figures that’s the end of it. But when the pretty stranger suddenly drops back into his life ― after violently losing hers ― the real trouble is only just beginning. It’s no surprise that Sheriff Brennan wants to quickly close the case, since it threatens to open a can of worms involving political secrets and powerful people. But the harder Brennan tries to declare the death an accident, the louder Mallory screams bloody murder. It’s not enough to wake the dead…but it may just bring a killer to his doorstep.
No Cure for Death (A Mallory Novel), by Max Allan Collins - Published on: 2015-09-01
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- Original language: English
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- Running time: 5 Hours
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No Cure for Death (A Mallory Novel), by Max Allan Collins Amazon.com Review A Q&A with Max Allan Collins Question: Where did Mallory begin? We understand that the first novel published, The Baby Blue Rip-Off, was actually the second Mallory novel.
Max Allan Collins: That’s right. No Cure for the Death was written first, at the University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. I probably began it around 1969, when I was studying with Richard Yates, the great mainstream novelist. I wrote three novels as my MFA thesis, Bait Money, No Cure for the Death, and Quarry, all sharing the same small Midwestern setting, Port City, but otherwise unrelated. The idea was to demonstrate that a mystery or crime novel could be written with a non-urban setting. Private eye-type stories were usually set in New York or Los Angeles, and I wanted to use a setting where I’d actually lived. Port City was Muscatine, Iowa, the small town where I still live.
Q: But Mallory isn’t a private eye.
MAC: Not technically, but the novels use the Raymond Chandler-style first- person technique, and the general investigative approach of a private eye novel, though these stories are probably more “medium-boiled” than “hardboiled.” Mallory is a mystery writer, which is the excuse for him getting involved in mysteries, but he was not intended to be a series character. Neither was the pro thief Nolan in Bait Money or my hitman Quarry. The three books in my MFA thesis were all designed to be standalones.
Q: Why series then?
MAC: Bait Money and No Cure for the Death both sold in late 1972 to Curtis Books, where the editor asked for sequels to both. Later, Quarry sold to Berkley Books, and that editor asked for a series, too. I was glad to comply in all three cases, but it caused me trouble. Nolan originally died at the end of Bait Money, Quarry was awaiting seemingly inevitable assassination, and Mallory, well...he was just a mystery writer. I’d have given him a better excuse to solve mysteries if I’d known he was going on to four more books!
Q: No Cure for the Death, why was the first book published second?
MAC: Curtis Books bought two Mallory novels, but the company was swallowed up by a bigger publisher, Popular Library, who consigned my novels to the purgatory known as inventory. For years, Popular Library’s editor assured me the books would be published, but before that ever happened, the rights reverted to me. No Cure for the Death had been very much of the late ‘60s/early ‘70s, with a strong Vietnam theme – some have called Mallory a hippie private eye. By the early ‘80s, the book seemed dated. The second novel, The Baby Blue Rip-Off, hadn’t dated at all. So it came up into the first slot. When No Cure for the Death was published next, I added an author’s note to label it a prequel.
Q: What were the circumstances of Mallory finally finding his way into print?
MAC: In the early ‘80s, I wrote an eco-thriller called Midnight Haul that I submitted to Walker Books. An editor there loved it and told me she was buying it, but then the top editor at Walker, Ruth Cavin, a very famous editor, called me to say that she liked Midnight Haul, but that it was too dark, and too much of a thriller, for the Walker line. If I ever did a mystery, though, she wanted to see it. As it happens, I had just gotten the rights back to the two Mallory novels, bundled The Baby Blue Rip-Off off to Ruth, who bought it in lightning speed. Shortly thereafter, Midnight Haul sold to Foul Play Press. The eco-thriller really is similar to the Mallorys, and if I had it to over, I’d probably rewrite Midnight Haul into a Mallory novel.
Q: The smalltown setting does seem to be part of Mallory’s appeal, though you take him out of Port City in both Kill Your Darlings and Nice Weekend for a Murder.
MAC: That indicates the autobiographical nature of the books. Kill Your Darlings is set in Chicago at a Bouchercon, the big mystery fan convetion, and Nice Weekend for a Murder is set at Mohonk Mountain House, in upstate New York, where real mystery writers used to stage fake mysteries for guests...maybe they still do. Anyway, my late friend and mentor Don Westlake was good enough to invite me there to participate, which became the basis for Nice Weekend for a Murder. Those two books seem to resonate very well with mystery fans, but my favorite of the Mallory novels by some distance is A Shroud for Aquarius, which is extremely autobiographical, as it deals with the death of a high-school friend of mine, my best friend actually, who was an apparent suicide ten years or so after graduation.
Q: Have we seen the last of Mallory?
MAC: Let’s see what new readers think, now that Thomas & Mercer are bringing the books back into print. With Quarry, I’ve gone back and written new novels set in the ‘70s and ‘80s. If I did Mallory again, though, I would bring up him into the present day, at my own present age. He’s me, for better or worse.
About the Author Max Allan Collins is the New York Times best-selling author of Road to Perdition and multiple award-winning novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and historical fiction. He has scripted the Dick Tracy comic strip, Batman comic books, and written tie-in novels based on the CSI, Bones, and Dark Angel TV series; collaborated with legendary mystery author Mickey Spillane; and authored numerous mystery novels including the Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, and the bestselling Nathan Heller historical thrillers. His additional Mallory novels include The Baby Blue Rip-Off, Kill Your Darlings, A Shroud for Aquarius, and Nice Weekend for a Murder.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A definite cure for boredom By Joseph P. Menta, Jr. Once again available to mystery readers via new print and e-book editions, Max Allan Collins' classic "Mallory" series continues to be a terrific rediscovery. In this second entry in the five-book series, our man Mallory rescues a pretty woman from a brutal assault in a bus station, which all too soon immerses him in a mystery involving dark family secrets, multiple conspiracies, greed, and a rich patriarch (perhaps) trying to atone for past sins. And- oh, yes- there's murder, too, quite a bit of it.Is Mallory- basically a nice young man home from the Vietnam War and a couple of years of trying out different jobs around the U.S.- up to the task of unraveling a series of deaths that seem to be connected to the richest family in his moderately-sized midwestern town? The author's clean prose and no-nonsense storytelling keep the reader immersed and turning the pages to find out. In fact, if Mr. Collins didn't tell you (in a new author's note penned for this reissued edition), I don't think most readers would guess that this polished, immersive book was written more than forty years ago by a writer still learning his craft.Oh, one more thing-- Mr. Collins also tells us in his new author's note that "No Cure For Death" was intended to be the first book in the "Mallory" series, and "The Baby Blue Rip-Off" the second. However, for various reasons, "The Baby Blue Rip-Off" was released first and "No Cure For Death" second, establishing "No Cure For Death" as the official second entry in the series. So, though it ultimately doesn't much matter, you might want to read "No Cure For Death" first, as it's chronologically Mallory's earliest adventure. One or two things happen in this book, including a personal tragedy for Mallory (I won't get more specific), that resonate later in "The Baby Blue Rip-Off".Well, I'm now off to grab book three in the series, "Kill Your Darlings", to continue my delightful reacquaintance with a series I haven't read in decades. I had forgotten how much fun dark doings in the American Midwest could be.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Interesting plot By Bookaholic Obviously an early attempt by a now accomplished author. I think this is the first book he wrote.I enjoyed the plotting very much. Stepping back in time to the 1970's was fun; the clothing descriptions, music, news, etc. The writing was rocky in places but the story was engaging. I've ordered another one.I enjoy Collin's writings and have read about 8 of his books, I had to clear out my library so can't say for sure how many.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Mallory in thé 1st By James Fuller This is the first book and I think it is a little too simple, too pat, and (having been there) a little dated. I have read others of his and I think they are more mature in outlook. This was not bad, but neither was it great. If you're looking for a light read this will do.Ppp
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