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Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone
by Culhane, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060892536
- ISBN 13
- 9780060892531
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: William Morrow and Company, 2007 294pp. Signed and dated by author Max Allan Collins and his pseudonym Patrick Culhane on title page. Spine is slightly cocke and a bit shaken. Spine ends are bumped. Lower edge of rear board has a small chip. Top edge of text block has light dust staining. Edges of jacket have light creases. Lower tip of front flap has a two-inch diagonal crease. Jacket has scuffs and light scratches. Text is unmarked. 0060892536. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus/Very Good Minus Jacket.
Synopsis
April 1920. The Prohibition era has just begun, and the Wild West is a fading memory. Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp is spending his golden years in Los Angeles as a private detective—and sometime consultant on cowboy movies. Bored and restless, he jumps at the chance to go east to help the son of his late friend Doc Holliday. The young man's mother fears her gambler son will lose everything, including his life, in wild and woolly Manhattan, where Johnny Holliday has opened one of the first, and glitziest, speakeasy nightclubs. Wyatt's onetime deputy, Bat Masterson, joins the defense of young Holliday against a new breed of badmen—mobsters led by Brooklyn's brash, brutal Alphonse Capone. Young Al and his sadistic boss Frankie Yale have targeted Holliday's nightspot, where jazz-baby diva Texas Guinan is welcoming suckers and money is flowing like bootleg beer. . . .As the Twenties (and machine guns) start to roar, the lawless lawmen move through a glittering world of beautiful showgirls, ruthless gangsters, and high-rolling gamblers—taking one last glorious stand that makes the O.K. Corral shoot-out pale, signaling the end of their legend and the beginning of Scarface Al's.Black Hats is a thrilling and colorful ride into a time and place where good guys and bad guys blur, and big-city dreams turn on a dime. In vivid detail, the enigmatic Earp's character draws into sharp focus, while Capone's young personality comes alive, foreshadowing the master criminal he would become. Wearing another hat, Patrick Culhane is one of suspense fiction's most respected writers, and his newest, most innovative blockbuster is grand, enormous fun.
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- Recycled Records and Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32717
- Title
- Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone
- Author
- Culhane, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060892536
- ISBN 13
- 9780060892531
- Publisher
- William Morrow and Company
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autographed, Signed: Fiction;
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