Stolen Away

Description for STOLEN AWAY: A NOVEL OF THE LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING by Max Allan Collins: So begins a public nightmare for a very private man and his family when their twenty-month-old baby, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is snatched from his crib, his parents jut yards away. The kidnapping touches off two months of torment for the distraught parents, who are besieged by reporters and offered assistance from police, federal agents, socialites, Psychics, crooks, and cranks. But the worst hell of all is the uncertainty.

One man searches for the truth, from a train station in Chicago to death row in New Jersey state prison, and finally to a secluded farmhouse in Michigan, where the twisted trail of deception, betrayal, and danger explodes in sudden, deadly violence.

STOLEN AWAY re-creates a lost era, a time of innocence and corruption, bringing to life historical personalities such as Hauptmann, Lindbergh, Eliot Ness, and Al Capone, and adding new drama and suspense to a chapter of American history that has never been fully closed.

This is #5 in A Nathan Heller Novel.