Black Hats (32 page)
Authors: Patrick Culhane
Tags: #Organized Crime, #Los Angeles (Calif.), #Private Investigators, #Detective and Mystery Stories, #Historical, #Mystery & Detective, #Private Investigators - New York (State) - New York, #Gangsters - New York (State) - New York, #New York (N.Y.), #Earp; Wyatt, #Capone; Al, #Fiction, #Mafia - New York (State) - New York, #Mystery Fiction, #Adventure Fiction, #Historical Fiction, #Crime, #Suspense, #General
Of course the last and biggest thanks must go to my wife, Barbara, who was always willing to interrupt her own writing to play in-house editor, on-call psychoanalyst, impromptu researcher, and reliable sounding board. She is truly queen of the cowgirls.
About the Author
PATRICK CULHANE is the pseudonym of mystery writer Max Allan Collins, who has been called by both
Publisher’s Weekly
and
Chicago Magazine
“the master of true-crime fiction.”
A frequent Mystery Writers of America “Edgar” nominee, and winner of an Anthony for nonfiction, he has earned an unprecedented fourteen Private Eye Writers of America
“Shamus” nominations, winning twice for Best Novel.
His graphic novel
Road to Perdition
is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, directed by Sam Mendes. His many comics credits include “Dick Tracy”; his own “Ms. Tree”; “Batman”; and “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,”
based on the hit TV series for which he has also written a
USA Today
–bestselling series of novels.
An independent filmmaker in the Midwest, he has directed and/or written features appearing on HBO and Lifetime, and recently completed a film version of his play,
Eliot Ness: An
Untouchable Life
. His other credits include film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including the
New York Times
bestseller
Saving Private Ryan
.
The author lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara; their son, Nathan, is currently taking postgraduate work in Japan.
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
(AS MAX ALLAN COLLINS)
Road to Purgatory
Road to Paradise
Credits
Jacket design by Marc Cohen
Jacket photographs: image of New York from Air Photo Archives, UCLA Department of Geography; hat by Jan Cobb
