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    The Pearl Harbor Murders
    The Pearl Harbor Murders
    The Pearl Harbor Murders
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Pearl Harbor Murders

    Written by Max Allan Collins

    Narrated by Dan John Miller

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    About this audiobook

    Edgar Rice Burroughs created the wildly popular Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars, but the exploits of his heroes cannot rival the writer’s own explosive adventure, sparked by the tragic murder of a young beauty on a moon-swept Honolulu beach.

    The killing is written off as the tragic result of a lovers’ quarrel, but Burroughs suspects that the alluring half-Japanese singer was executed by espionage agents. It’s December 6, 1941. War with Japan is looming, and Burroughs has reason to suspect an attack on Oahu is imminent. Was the songstress silenced to prevent her from “singing” about certain sinister plans? As Burroughs and his son Hully search for clues and track down suspects, all signs point to the next day—Sunday—as the perfect time for a Japanese invasion. But the thought of such devastation raining down on paradise seems almost unbelievable…

    Set against the catastrophic aerial strike that led the United States into another world war, The Pearl Harbor Murders effortlessly mixes hard-hitting action and romance in this gripping untold chapter from our nation’s most tragic day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469248271
    The Pearl Harbor Murders
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    Max Allan Collins

    Max Allan Collins is a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master. He is the author of the Shamus Award-winning Nathan Heller thrillers and the graphic novel Road to Perdition, basis of the Academy Award-winning film starring Tom Hanks. His innovative Quarry novels led to a 2016 Cinemax series. He has completed a dozen posthumous Mickey Spillane mysteries, and wrote the syndicated Dick Tracy series for more than fifteen years. His one-man show, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, was an Edgar Award finalist. He lives in Iowa.

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    • 4/5
      This is one of the author's "disaster mystery" series, in which a real life writer and amateur sleuth investigates murder against a slightly fictionalised version of a famous disaster scenario. In this case, Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan and Jules Verne-esque SF adventure stories, investigates the murder of Pearl Harada, a (fictional) popular Japanese American singer in Honolulu, on the eve of the Japanese attack in December 1941. What at first seems to have been a murder committed by a jealous ex-boyfriend turns out to have been far more serious and significant, and it emerges that she has become privy to a secret that could have changed the course of the events of the following days. Burroughs is painted in a rounded and sympathetic manner and emerges as a more three dimensional character than some of the the fictional versions of his equivalents in the other novels in the series. The author did his research thoroughly and Hawaiian culture, with its mix of Polynesian, Japanese, Chinese and American elements, comes across in all its colourful vibrancy. The descriptions of the sudden and terrifying attack in the morning of 7 December 1941 are very vivid, and the sense of distorted priorities is stark: the US fear was not of invasion of the islands, but much more of internal sabotage by what turned out to be an almost entirely mythical fifth column of Hawaiians of Japanese descent, a fear that caused aeroplanes to be grounded and disarmed and thereby vastly increased the damage and destruction caused by the Japanese attack, an onslaught that in less than two hours caused nearly two and a half thousand military and civilian casualties and destruction of much of the Pacific fleet. The wrapping up of the main plot and identification of the murderer seem almost to shrink into significance against the sense of dislocation and devastation, reading the descriptions of which reminded me rather of 9/11. A good, dramatic and quick read.
    • 4/5
      Nice entry into the series. Liked the people in it, saw the plot too soon though.
    • 3/5
      Meh. The mystery was OK, but the setting distracted both me and the detectives too much. The story was pretty thin in itself, and interrupted by a lot of infodumps. If I were fascinated by celebrity gossip, or by ERB (there's a lot about the ending of both his marriages, and his relationships with his children), or if the precise details of the attack on Pearl Harbor (including details of how various individuals, mostly fictional, died), I would no doubt have loved this book. As I like ERB's work but care about him as an individual very little, and have no particular interest in the Pearl Harbor attack or celebrity gossip, the book was overall a yawn. And I found the sexism (correct for the period) rather annoying, mostly because the racism (also correct for the period) was carefully deflected, explained away, assigned only to villains...I won't bother to read any others by this author, I don't think - his style doesn't grab me.
    • 3/5
      To me, this mystery was more interesting for its setting --Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack --and its characters, notably Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of my favorite authors --than for the actual mystery, which I scarcely remember. The Hawaiian setting is reminiscent of the Charlie Chan novels --the leisurely prewar island.
    • 3/5
      A bit flatter than most of his historical mysteries, perhaps because he was working with a real person whose family is still alive.
    • 3/5
      What ever you think of Collins’ prose, you have to admire his ability to find a niche. His series of one-off historical mysteries feature real characters solving crime in a well-known disaster setting. In this volume, he couples the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and the murder-solving skills of Edgar Rice Burroughs and his son. A lot of research obviously goes into these books. Unusual in a slim paperback, the references used to provide background are all discussed in an afterword. As a former Honolulu resident (the primary reason I read this book) it brought back some memories for me with its description of Oahu settings. A plethora of real characters interspersed with fictional ones give a patina of realism to what is a fairly pedestrian plot. Collin’s writing style reminds me of the heyday of pulp fiction. It keeps moving, one chapter of Edgar’s action, the next of his son’s, giving the feeling of constant tension. He overuses adjectives describing his characters to the point of silliness at times, but his dialogue is passable. All in all, a good, quick, read, not memorable but a great selection if you’re vacationing at Waikiki.
    • 3/5
      This is the third book in the disaster series by Max Allan Collins. I have read the prevous books and enjoyed them very much however, this one fell a little flat for me. It jumped around from one point of view to another and back again, and it seem very hard to follow. I had to reread some passages several time just to gather where the story was going.
    • 4/5
      Collins successfully weaves together world renowned author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and a murder mystery. Burroughs, recouping in Hawaii stumbles upon a murder on the beach and assists in uncovering whether it is ultimately connected to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Fun, quick read