Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Hindenburg Murders
    The Hindenburg Murders
    The Hindenburg Murders
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Hindenburg Murders

    Written by Max Allan Collins

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    3.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    How the Hindenburg went from luxury airship to gargantuan fireball wasn’t the only mystery surrounding the zeppelin’s fatal flight. First came the murder.

    When a passenger vanishes during the Hindenburg’s trans-Atlantic voyage from Frankfurt to New Jersey, mystery writer Leslie Charteris is asked to use his knowledge of the criminal mind to quietly pinpoint the killer. Charteris is famous for his fictional detective, the Saint, who extracts riches as well as vengeance from evildoers in true Robin Hood fashion. But in this case, the villain turns out to be the murder victim himself—a Nazi spy. And the list of passengers who might want him dead is long. Suspecting that sabotaging the German airship is the killer’s true aim, Charteris must solve the murder before innocent lives are engulfed in flames.

    Reconstructing the zeppelin’s fatal flight on the eve of World War II, The Hindenburg Murders proves that Max Allan Collins is the master of hard-boiled historical fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469248189
    The Hindenburg Murders
    Author

    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.

    More audiobooks from Max Allan Collins

    Related to The Hindenburg Murders

    Related audiobooks

    Historical Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Four Best Audiobooks Of June To Take You Places

      Jun 23, 2020

      Hardboiled mysteries, obscure farming communities, and tales of home and family provide ample entertainment in June’s audiobook roundup.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Fair To Middling

      Oct 29, 2020

      AMONG THE PIECES occasioned by Harold Evans’s death was a fond and generous memoir by Donald Trelford, his rival Sunday newspaper editor: “We found we had much in common — both of us short men with northern working-class backgrounds (his family in th

      4 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Dec 13, 2023

      SIR: I found Dunphy's cartoon about incompatible typefaces (November issue) most amusing, not least because it reminded me of a verse I wrote during a few moments of boredom in a meeting at which typefaces suitable for exhibition posters were being d

      3 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Oct 18, 2023

      Readers’ Letters
      4 min read

    • Article

      Bliss of Bournemouth

      Jun 29, 2022

      The Savoy Hotel in Bournemouth was one of the chief delights of a recent tour. It pretends to be in Miami – without the cockroaches – and it I was by far the best I stayed at, and with the youngest and most cheerful staff. After breakfast (served, no

      4 min read

    • Article

      Georges Clemenceau

      Aug 2, 2023

      Georges Clemenceau
      7 min read

    • Article

      La Otra Historia

      Jun 30, 2022

      La Otra Historia
      14 min read

    • Article

      The Tichborne Case

      Mar 8, 2024

      The Tichborne Case
      5 min read

    • Article

      Last Portion Of Chips

      Sep 21, 2022

      Last Portion Of Chips
      4 min read

    • Article

      Riots, Rows And Rinsing

      Sep 13, 2023

      ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO The Fancy in 1923 DARK, dark is the night – indeed, so dark that we see not; welcome would be a ray of light! While the more devout were indulging in prayer, another section of the community was appealing to be saved from a horr

      4 min read

    • Article

      Gay Hero Of The SAS

      Dec 14, 2022

      My elder brother Carlos was a pal of Paddy (real name Robert) Blair Mayne (1915-55) – one of the prominent SAS men in the BBC TV series Rogue Heroes. Back in the 1950s, they went carousing together around the many Dublin pubs. PBM was from a strict P

      3 min read

    • Article

      Letter Bocks

      Nov 18, 2021

      letters@viz.co.uk ON A RECENT visit to Denmark I saw this remarkable poster inside a bus. Needless to say, I put my foot through the bus window and was hospitalised for a considerable amount of time. However, I was perfectly fine and I didn’t even ha

      13 min read

    • Article

      In From The Cold

      Nov 13, 2023

      In From The Cold
      7 min read

    • Article

      Commonplace Book

      Sep 1, 2021

      If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. —Rudyard Kipling, “Epitaphs of the War,” The Years Between, 1919 She consulted me, a glance, and said: “I think not anything off the wagon. It arrives too quickly. Let’s have somethi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Hello, Grim Reaper

      Dec 15, 2021

      She was a babe. A fully paid-up, card-carrying babe. There was absolutely no doubt about it, and she was heading straight for me. She was almost sprinting towards me across the recently reimagined lobby of Claridge’s. She looked up, her scarlet-anoin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Feb 2, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Return Of The Anglo-Irish

      Jul 27, 2022

      Return Of The Anglo-Irish
      3 min read

    • Article

      RIP Practical Jokes

      May 3, 2023

      ‘Who put salt in the sugar bowl? ‘Who put fireworks in the coal?’ These were the opening lines of Terry Scott's naughty-schoolboy song, My Brother, back in 1962. The song was indicative of an era when pranks and practical jokes were more or less expe

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Modest Man

      Oct 17, 2019

      The Modest Man
      5 min read

    • Article

      My Italian Glamourpuss Pal Was Boris’s Mother-in-law

      Sep 22, 2021

      To be blonde, beautiful, brainy, acquainted with the Mafia and a member of the Italian Communist Party – what more could a girl have wanted back in those golden 1960s? Gaia Servadio, who’s just died at 82, seemed to me to be the Zuleika Dobson of Fle

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Misunderstood Queen

      Aug 3, 2022

      The Misunderstood Queen
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Hindenburg Murders

    3.5/5

    33 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      This is the fourth of the books by this author I have read, setting a murder mystery in a real life disaster scenario and including as sleuth a real life crime writer. In this case, it's Leslie Charteris, creator of The Saint, who tries to find a murderer aboard the doomed German airship on its final flight to New York in May 1937 (in reality, Charteris was on its maiden flight the year before, but not on its final one). The plot involves undercover anti-Nazi Germans plotting to blow up the airship after it docks in New York to strike a blow to undermine the prestige of the Nazi regime, and the moral ambiguity is interesting, though the anti-Nazi saboteurs are unattractive characters. Frankly, I didn't warm to Charteris at all, and the only characters I found sympathetic really were the Adelts and Captain Lehmann. The plot is reasonable, with a twist at the end after the fiery crash of the airship, but the real highlight of this for me was the setting itself - there is a certain majesty about the notion of travelling in an airship that must have been the ultimate transport wonder of its day. A plan of the airship would have been good.
    • 4/5
      This is the second book by this author that I have read and I have found it very interesting to look at an historical event in this manner. In this book, the author takes you through the last voyage of the Hindenburg while weaving a murder mystery around the passengers and crew. You are given numreous descriptions of what it was like aboard while trying to gather all the clues to determine whodunit. The ending was extremely surprising for me and I look forward to another book by this author.
    • 4/5
      Leslie Charteris, writer of mysteries and creator of "The Saint," plays detective himself when a passenger goes missing on what turns out to be the last flight of the airship Hindenburg. The mystery is competently handled, but no more than that. There are few clues as such, and long conversations between Charteris and the various suspects substitute for detection. The solution, when it comes, manages to be both predictable and (based on the evidence) virtually impossible to have foreseen. That said, Collins' fictionalized version of Charteris makes an amusing amateur sleuth in the tradition of Lord Peter Wimsey, and the details of life aboard a luxury airship are worked in so skilfully that they never feel gratuitous or obtrusive. Mystery fans will find The Hindenburg Murders a pleasant-but-lightweight diversion; aviation enthusiasts will revel in Collins' meticulous recreation of a long-vanished world.