Dick Tracy
by Max Allan Collins
“CALLING DICK TRACY! CALLING DICK TRACY!”
There’s big trouble on the wrist radio: Five of the city’s deadliest hoods lie dead in a downtown garage—and their boss, Lips Manlis, will soon be number six. “Big Boy” Caprice is on the rampage. With his number-one gun, Flattop, loose on the streets, Big Boy plans to destroy his gangland opposition and unite all the tough guys in town—Pruneface, Mumbles, Itchy, Numbers, and the rest—in an organized reign of terror. Just one man stands in Big Boy's way: Dick Tracy.
Soon, the ace detective will be hit from all sides: by the ferocious Big Boy himself; by Breathless Mahoney, the sizzling chanteuse who wants to snag Tracy away from his girl, Tess Trueheart; and by a mysterious, faceless figure, The Blank, who may have found the ultimate way to end Tracy’s crime-stopping career for good.
There’s big trouble on the wrist radio: Five of the city’s deadliest hoods lie dead in a downtown garage—and their boss, Lips Manlis, will soon be number six. “Big Boy” Caprice is on the rampage. With his number-one gun, Flattop, loose on the streets, Big Boy plans to destroy his gangland opposition and unite all the tough guys in town—Pruneface, Mumbles, Itchy, Numbers, and the rest—in an organized reign of terror. Just one man stands in Big Boy's way: Dick Tracy.
Soon, the ace detective will be hit from all sides: by the ferocious Big Boy himself; by Breathless Mahoney, the sizzling chanteuse who wants to snag Tracy away from his girl, Tess Trueheart; and by a mysterious, faceless figure, The Blank, who may have found the ultimate way to end Tracy’s crime-stopping career for good.