Description: Colleen Collins, author of romance, mystery and nonfiction books
Welcome to Colleen Collins Books, a blog site written by mystery-romance-nonfiction author Colleen Collins.
I based my noir short story “Look Your Last” (in the noir anthology of short stories Coast to Coast Noir: From Sea to Shining Sea , Down & Out Books) on the true story of a 1950s mafia hit on Raleigh Street, a quiet residential neighborhood in Denver. It’s still unknown who committed the murder, but it’s known how they did it: they lured a man onto his front lawn (his wife and young children were inside, sleeping), and forced him to drink poison. The young son found his father’s body the next morning.
Years ago, a friend invited me to a Christmas party at that house on Raleigh Street. On the drive over, he told me the story of the murder, and that the young boy, now a man with his own family, still lived in the house.