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    The Titanic Murders
    The Titanic Murders
    The Titanic Murders
    Audiobook8 hours

    The Titanic Murders

    Written by Max Allan Collins

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When a passenger is found dead inside a locked cabin aboard the opulent Titanic, it’s a crime worthy of “the Thinking Machine,” the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using formidable logic. So who better to crack this real-life case than author Jacques Futrelle, the man behind America’s favorite detective?

    On board for a romantic getaway with his wife, Futrelle agrees to conduct a stealth inquiry. The list of suspects on the Titanic’s first-class deck is long and includes the brightest lights from high society, each with no shortage of dark secrets. As the mammoth ship speeds across the Atlantic toward its doom, Futrelle races to uncover which passenger has a secret worth killing for—before the murderer strikes again.

    Set in the days leading up to the luxury liner’s tragic sinking, this historical thriller is a dazzling blend of fact and fiction that will enthrall readers with page-turning revelations and Titanic lore.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 11, 2012
    ISBN9781469248349
    The Titanic 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
      Author Max Collins has given his readers an interesting mystery: what if a murder had been committed on the Titanic before it struck the iceberg? On board in this work of fiction are the people who really were on board, including mystery writer and journalist Jacques Futrelle. When a body is discovered, likely murdered and not deceased through natural causes, Futrelle is pressed into service to find the guilty party. To complicate matters, the dead man was a blackmailer who had several “clients” on the ship. The novel is a quick and entertaining read, dealing with life on the ship and folllows Futrelle as he chases down clues. It’s a good mystery that doesn’t dwell on the actual sinking.
    • 4/5
      3.5 Stars, rounded up to 4. This was an enjoyable book, although it did take a while to get going as the feel for being on the Titanic was developed. As the book went on though it did fully engage me and I enjoyed the writing style. Not surprised the first person who was killed was murdered, I think that I might have been tempted as well. Lol! The author did an excellent job of mixing fact and fiction and it just makes you wonder! The book felt quite sad towards the end as you knew what was coming and you had grown attached to the characters by then. It was quite a quick read, and this was a very slight weakness as it left you wanting some more. I definitely think I'll read other books by this author.
    • 4/5
      Nice feel to the period. Good characters. Plausible mystery.
    • 4/5
      Very well researched and thoughtfully done. Skillful use of the mystery as the tree on which he could hang the necessary Titanic cast of characters
    • 5/5
      This was an interesting murder mystery set on the doomed liner, in that all the characters and suspects are real historical figures, many of them the famous names like Astor, Guggenheim, Strauss and Margaret (Molly) Brown. The central character is the mystery novelist Jacques Futrelle, who created a fictional detective who solved crimes using logic and deduction a la Sherlock Holmes. Here he tries to get to the bottom of the murder of two passengers (real names on the list of dead, but about whom nothing is known), who have apparently been blackmailing some of the wealthy and well known First Class passengers, as well as others in Second Class and among the servants of these passengers. The blackmailers identify some weaknesses in each of their victims, based on historically known facts. The author thereby concocts an interesting mystery based on entirely real historical figures and incidents, within the framework of a supposed story told to the author by Futrelle's real daughter, Virginia. It also provides a possible explanation as to why the ship was travelling so fast and why the boat drill on the final day was cancelled. Futrelle solves the mystery and is in a positive frame of mind after a good dinner on Sunday night "when something jarred him awake - an unexpected jostle that was the first sign since he'd boarded that he was on a ship, not in a hotel". The main narrative of the story then ends, with an epilogue explaining the real fates of the characters. A good, well constructed novel.
    • 4/5
      Jacques Futrelle, the famous writer is contacted my a mysterious person to look into the Titanics non-accidental deaths before the ship hit the iceberg. This is an interesting historical fiction involving characters of that were truly aboard the Titanic. Most of the characters seem stereotype characters, but the plot is tied together nicely. I'll be looking into another one of Collin's disaster series.
    • 3/5
      I thought that the premise of this book was absolutely fascinating. the idea of writer/journalist on the Titanic being confronted with two murders was a little ordinary but the way that the story was handled was quite unique in its narrative.