Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone
Patrick Culhane, . . Morrow, $24.95 (294pp) ISBN 978-0-06-089253-1
The pseudonymous Culhane (aka Max Allen Collins) once again shows himself a master at the historical thriller. In 1920, 70-year-old Wyatt Earp, who's working as a PI in Los Angeles, is hired by "Big Nosed Kate" Elder, the widow of his best friend, Doc Holliday. Kate wants Wyatt to go to New York and help her speakeasy-owning son, John (fathered by Doc as he was dying), who has fallen afoul of a local tough guy, the young Alphonse Capone. In New York, Wyatt teams with another old pal,
Reviewed on: 01/15/2007
Genre: Fiction
Mass Market Paperbound - 276 pages - 978-0-06-089254-8