The presence of a femme fatale named April Ames spices things up. Max gets tangled up with an international gang of crooks and the hunt for a music box. Max is hired by the boy's father to find the killer. One of my favorites, though I figured out the identity of the criminal mastermind before Max did.Ī youth is murdered at a carnival by a man with his head wrapped in bandages. Robert Wade is still living and now writes mystery reviews for the San Diego Union-Tribune.Īn alcoholic Max Thursday pulls himself out of the gutter to track down and rescue his kidnapped son. Recently Wade Miller's 1952 crime novel Branded Woman (not a Max Thursday novel) was reprinted by Hard Case Crime.īill Miller died in 1961. Wade Miller wrote many other detective and crime novels, including Badge of Evil which was made into the Orson Welles film Touch of Evil. Copies are available at used book stores or at sites like. The novels are now out of print, but four of them were in-print as recently as the early 1990s. Max is a fundamentally decent man with an aversion to violence so strong that he doesn't own a gun.Īlso making frequent appearances are his policemanįriend and sometimes adversary Lieutenant Austin Clapp, and his newspaperwoman-girlfriend, Merle Osborn. Variety, though with less sex and violence than most. The name "Wade Miller", they are excellent detective novels of the hard-boiled Written by Robert Wade and Bill Miller under The six Max Thursday novels were written from 1947 to 1951 and are set in Wade Miller's Max Thursday Novels Wade Miller's Max Thursday Novels
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