Max Allan Collins. Forge, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2180-0
Having unraveled the truth behind Marilyn Monroe’s death in 2011’s Bye Bye, Baby, Nate Heller now looks into JFK’s assassination in Collins’s suspenseful 14th novel featuring the detective dubbed by Life magazine the “Private Eye to the Stars.” In...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Foul Play Press $14.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-88150-098-1
The fifth ""Quarry'' novel (the first in hardcover and the first in 10 years) is fast and snappy. Ex-assassin narrator Quarry is offered a million dollars to kill a presidential candidate. Cozily retired, and with a pregnant young wife, Quarry...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Tor Books $15.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-312-93029-5
Collins (The Million-Dollar Wound, the Mallory series) may not be in Elmore Leonard's class but he's a contender. Nolan, a retired thief, is 50-ish and legit now, owner of a successful shopping-mall restaurant in the Quad Cities on the Iowa-Illinois
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Max Allan Collins, Author Bantam Books $9.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-35233-7
Little did detective Nate Heller realize that following a suspicious-looking platinum blonde, baby-toting beauty through Chicago's LaSalle Street Station would lead him to solve the kidnapping of the son of a small-time bootlegger. He had hoped he...
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Max Allan Collins, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (210p) ISBN 978-0-312-08856-9
The fourth Eliot Ness novel from the prolific Collins ( Bullet Proof ), who also pens the Dick Tracy comic strip, is action-packed but essentially lifeless (despite the fact that many of the characters are actual figures). Former Untouchable Ness (wh
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Max Allan Collins, Author Dutton Books $20.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93758-6
In the Bahamas the carnal hours occupy the time between dark and daylight. They also occupy the sharp mind of Chicago shamus Nathan Heller, once again sleuthing his way through a period mystery that tosses real characters in with invented ones and...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Dutton Books $21.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-93759-3
This time politics absorbs Chicago series shamus Nate Heller, whose adventures (in Carnal Hours, etc.) place him in the middle of the century's most dramatic crimes. It's 1935, and the dogged, skirt-chasing Nate is working as a bodyguard for...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-94225-2
Seven of the eight volumes in this series, which blends classic American crime with the fictional efforts of detective Nate Heller, have been nominated for Shamus awards (two have won). This tale warrants another. Collins gives us pre-statehood...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-525-94311-2
Blending solid research with reasoned speculation and adding fictional enhancements has proven to be a highly successful formula for eight Nate Heller mysteries, which have explored fascinating events like the Lindbergh kidnapping (Stolen Away, 1991)
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Max Allan Collins, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-525-94515-4
Paranoia overruns rather than creeps into Chicago PI Nathan Heller's 10th historical case (Flying Blind, etc.). In 1949, longtime client James Forrestal, the outgoing U.S. secretary of defense, believes himself the target of Communist forces within...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Five Star (ME) $21.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-7862-2211-7
This is less a blast than a blip from the literary past of one of the genre's more prolific and acclaimed authors. Collins's crime fiction (Majic Man, Forecasts, Aug. 23; etc.) has often explored the past. This novel is now historical more by...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Crippen & Landru Publishers $42 (206p) ISBN 978-1-885941-55-8
Two-time Shamus winner Max Allan Collins (The Hindenberg Murders) blends fact and fantasy in the new title novella and six previously published short stories assembled in Kisses of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook. In the novella, wry, slang-sling
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Max Allan Collins, Author . NAL $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-20650-3
"I had done jobs for Nitti, and Nitti had done me favors, like not having me whacked," PI Nate Heller recalls in the latest entertaining installment of his "memoirs," which takes him back to his old stomping grounds in Chicago. It'
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Max Allan Collins. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-612185-29-3
Ten years before the main action of Collins’s by-the-numbers serial killer vs. survivor-of-his-attack thriller, a man dressed in a police uniform invaded the Westlake, Ohio, home of 16-year-old Jordan Rivera. He stabbed her parents and brother to...
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Max Allan Collins. Forge, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3626-2
In the solid 17th Nate Heller thriller, a sequel to 2012’s Target Lancer, Collins skillfully integrates fact with fiction in service of a plot centering on the suspicious-to-some numbers of witnesses to President Kennedy’s assassination who died in...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78116-266-8
Collins's 10th noir featuring John Quarry (after 2010's Quarry's Ex) is easily his best—a sharp-edged thriller with more than one logical but surprising twist. Quarry used to work as a hit man on assignments arranged for him by a middleman known as...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-783290-84-0
Mickey Spillane fans will relish Collins's 11th novel featuring the hard-hitting hit man who goes by Quarry (after 2014's The Wrong Quarry). In 1972, a year after Quarry finished his tour of duty in Vietnam, he's settled into his new career as a...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78329-885-3
First published in 1976 under the title The Broker's Wife, Collins's second novel (after the eponymous Quarry) featuring the Vietnam vet turned hit man is a brisk page-turner that works well as a prequel for readers who are only familiar with more...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78329-889-1
The familiar trope of a killer picking off the inhabitants of a snowbound house gets new life in this reissue of Collins's fourth novel featuring hit man Quarry (after Quarry's Deal). Quarry returns from Vietnam to find his wife in bed with another...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (25624p) ISBN 978-1-78329-891-4
Given the bleak tone of Collins's Quarry series, it's not a spoiler to reveal that the tranquility the hitman enjoys at the beginning of his suspenseful fifth outing, first published in 1987 as Primary Target, is short-lived. As he relates in the...
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Max Allan Collins. Forge, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7828-6
In trying to cover too much ground, Collins dilutes the impact of the main investigation in his 18th historical whodunit featuring PI Nate Heller (after 2013’s Ask Not). In 1953, Sam Spade–creator Dashiell Hammett hires Heller to find whatever...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78329-887-7
This reissue of Collins's third Quarry novel, originally published in 1976 as The Dealer, showcases the author's talent for crafting hard-boiled suspense. A list of fellow assassins that the hit man has retrieved from his late middleman, the Broker,
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-78329-814-3
The 1972 presidential election provides the backdrop for Collins’s entertaining 13th Quarry novel (after 2015’s Quarry’s Choice). In October of that year, the Broker, who’s the “buffer between the respectable people who wanted someone dead and the...
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Max Allan Collins. Titan, $7.99 mass market (272p) ISBN 978-1-78565-067-3
Originally titled The Broker (1976), this reissue of the series debut of Collins’s charismatic antihero is timed to coincide with a new TV series. When the man called Quarry returned from the killing fields of Vietnam to find his wife in bed with a...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Collectors Press $45 (375p) ISBN 978-1-888054-53-8
Edgar nominee and Shamus Award-winner Max Allan Collins a bestselling author whose graphic novel Road to Perdition is the foundation of a DreamWorks film due out in March turns his attention to the evolution of his favorite form in The History ...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Walker & Company $15.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5656-5
Mystery-writer and -writing lore pervade this new effort by the author of A Shroud for Aquarius. Crime writer Mallory is invited to a mystery weekend at Mohonk Mountain House in upstate New York. As in real-life Mohonk mystery weekends, crime...
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Max Allan Collins, Author . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (203p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5778-5
The wife of a prominent accounting firm executive has just been arrested for the murder of her husband and his afternoon pay-per-playmate, but the Chicago PD have their doubts about the open-and-shut case. It's up to longtime Collins heroine,...
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Max Allan Collins, Author . Morrow $24.95 (289p) ISBN 978-0-06-054028-9
Shamus Award–winner Collins concludes his Road series (after Road to Purgatory
) with a gripping, blood-soaked journey down memory lane. It's 1973, and 50-year-old Michael O'Sullivan Jr., the young boy orphaned in Road to Perdition
,...
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Max Allan Collins, Author . Morrow $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-054027-2
When you're dealing with the straight-text sequel to a bestselling American graphic novel, Road to Perdition
(2002), which became a memorable Tom Hanks movie, the words take on extra significance. Luckily, Collins is, among his other talents, a
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Max Allan Collins, Author . Berkley $6.99 (254p) ISBN 978-0-425-18688-6
In this traditional, pre–World War I mystery, prolific Collins (The Pearl Harbor Murders, etc.) emulates the memoir-like writing style of S.S. Van Dine, a mystery writer and art critic popular in the Jazz Age, and casts him as a journalist-cum
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Max Allan Collins, Author Signet Book $5.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-451-17975-3
Chicago sleuth Nathan Heller goes to the Bahamas, where he's commissioned to find the killer of a Caribbean millionaire and exonerate the dead man's dishonest son-in-law. (July)
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Max Allan Collins, Author Five Star (ME) $25.95 (261p) ISBN 978-1-59414-061-7
Max Allan Collins's Quarry's Greatest Hits, which collects three stories and a novel, Primary Target, featuring the author's taciturn hit man known only as Quarry.
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Max Allan Collins, Author Hard Crime Case $7.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5593-4
Fans of Collins (Road to Perdition ) will be delighted to find him resurrecting Quarry, the ruthless hit-man he put to rest years ago, after six Quarry novels and a small handful of short stories. Now living and relaxing in the Minnesota woods,...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Collectors Press $39.95 (208p) ISBN 978-1-888054-78-1
Collins's vintage collection of sexy calendar girls takes kitsch to a new level. There's something at once innocent and provocative about these images, which Collins (who's written over 20 books for Collectors Press, including Elvgren: His Life &...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Hard Crime Case $6.99 (204p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5965-9
Collins, Max Allan. The First Quarry. Hard Case Crime. 2008 204p.pap. MYST ~ An amalgam of hard sex, harder violence, bodily functions, and belly laughs, this fun, fast read will leave readers craving the next installment. Recommended. Background:...
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Max Allan Collins, Author Walker & Company $14.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5629-9
Mystery writer Mallory was a precocious reader as a youth and for years shared the thoughts spawned by great books with his high school friend Ginnie Mullens. But the two lost touch as adults although they lived in the same small Iowa town....
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The 1947 Black Dahlia case provides the basis for Shamus Award winner Collins's latest intriguing blend of fiction and real-life mystery featuring his well-connected Chicago P.I., Nathan Heller (Majic Man; Flying Blind). Newly married and in L.A
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Max Allan Collins, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (275p) ISBN 978-0-312-01484-1
The fourth chronicle of Collins's Nate Heller (True Detective et seq.) is set in Chicago and Las Vegas in 1946. When a gangster shoots the private detective's client, gambler James Ragen, Heller assigns himself to investigate the case. During his...
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Max Allan Collins, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-312-53252-9
Collins has wrapped up his ""Frank Nitti trilogy'' in fine style: new readers will be tempted to go back to True Detective and True Crime. Private-eye narrator Nate Heller is hired by Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler and movie star Robert...
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Max Allan Collins, Author, Richard Rayner, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Piers Rayner, with a new intro. by Collins. Pocket/DC Comics $14 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7434-4224-4
Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based. It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed&#x
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-85768-748-7
Those who like their parody broad will best appreciate Collins’s third entry in his history of comic books trilogy (after 2008’s Strip for Murder). In 1954, psychiatrist Werner Frederick (the fictional alter ego of Fredric Wertham, author of the...
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Max Allan Collins, Author, Terry Beatty, Illustrator . Berkley Prime Crime $14 (261p) ISBN 978-0-425-21365-0
Fans who admire Collins's superb Nate Heller series for its ingenious, innovative and well-researched solutions to historical mysteries like the Black Dahlia murder (Angel in Black
) and Amelia Earhart's disappearance (Flying Blind
) will...
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Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty. DC/Vertigo Crime, $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-4012-2383-0
Collins returns to his successful “Perdition” story line, as seen in the film and the graphic novel The Road to Perdition, accompanied by realistic black and white and gray-tone sketch art from his frequent collaborator and Eisner co-nominee Beatty.
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Max Allan Collins, Author, Edward Gorman, Foreword by Foul Play Press $19.95 (251p) ISBN 978-0-88150-210-7
This grandly titled but drab clutter of crime fiction--an original novella and five previously published short stories--represents some of the last work of the late Collins (scripter since 1977 of the Dick Tracy comic strip, who often based his...
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Max Allan Collins, read by Dan John Miller. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 11.5 hrs., $19.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-2090-0
What do Ronald Reagan, George Raft, Walter Winchell, and Al Capone have in common? They’re all present in Collins’s 1983 crime novel, which introduced his now famous detective, Nathan Heller. As would become the norm for this popular series, Heller...
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Max Allan Collins, Author, Steve Lieber, Illustrator . DC Comics/Paradox Press $7.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0173-9
The premise of this period crime drama derives from the Japanese manga hit Lone Wolf & Cub
. The wandering Samurai of that series who travels with his young son here is depicted as Michael O'Sullivan, a Capone-era enforcer with a conscience.
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Max Allan Collins. Amazon/Thomas & Mercer, $14.95 trade paper (302p) ISBN 978-1-612185-30-9
At the start of this unsatisfying political thriller set a decade in the future, two masked gunmen invade the Verdict Chophouse, a Washington, D.C., restaurant, where Supreme Court Associate Justice Henry Venter, who led the successful effort to...
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Max Allan Collins, Author, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Illustrator, Josef Rubinstein, Illustrator , illus. by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and Josef Rubinstein. Paradox Press/DC Comics $7.95 (96p) ISBN 978-1-4012-0068-8
This compelling volume is the first in a new series of three graphic novellas that build on the successful 1930s-era Road to Perdition
graphic novel and film. Together, they chronicle a six-month period unexplored in the original story. Once again,...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-783291-42-7
Collins’s 10th posthumous novel-length collaboration with Spillane (after 2016’s A Long Time Dead) successfully integrates PI Mike Hammer’s stereotypical tough-guy narration into a whodunit plot set in 1965 New York. Hammer’s knack for being in the...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Mysteriouspress.com, $14.99 trade paper (227p) ISBN 978-1-5040-3609-2
Collins (Murder Never Knocks) brings his considerable experience with iconic PI Mike Hammer to these eight formulaic stories adapted from manuscripts that Spillane left incomplete at his death, though the collection is definitely a mixed bag. At his
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-783291-34-2
In the gripping opening of Collins's ninth posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2015's Kill Me, Darling), a gun-wielding hit man confronts PI Mike Hammer in his Manhattan office. Fortunately, the gunman makes the typical bad guy mistake of...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-101460-6
Set in the 1970s, Collins's impressive third posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2010's The Big Bang) finds "an older, ailing Mike Hammer returning to New York and finding it (and himself) changed," though readers will see little evidence...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-85768-288-8
Collins (Road to Perdition) once again successfully completes an unfinished Spillane crime novel, this one a sequel to 1967’s The Delta Factor. In the late 1960s, Morgan the Raider is on the run in Miami, after the Feds mistakenly ID him as the...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (titanbooks.com), $22.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-783291-38-0
Set in 1954, Collins’s seventh posthumous collaboration with Mike Hammer creator Spillane (after 2014’s King of the Weeds) is one of his best, liberally dosed with the razor-edged prose and violence that marked the originals. The New York City PI...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $22.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-857684-67-7
What's billed as the penultimate Mike Hammer novel, a posthumous collaboration between Collins and Spillane (Complex 90), will leave even die-hard fans wondering whether the effort to complete the manuscript was worthwhile. Instead of the gritty...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-85768-465-3
A clever, fast-moving plot drives Collins’s gritty fifth posthumous collaboration with MWA Grand Master Spillane (after 2011’s The Consummata), which picks up about a year after the events of the debut Hammer novel, I, the Jury (1947). Late one...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $25 (247p) ISBN 978-0-15-101448-4
Drawing on an unpublished partial Spillane manuscript dating from the '60s, Collins resurrects Spillane's randy, two-fisted New York City PI, Mike Hammer, in a mystery likely to appeal only to Hammer fans. When Hammer intervenes to save a...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-85768-466-0
Set in 1964, Collins’s seventh posthumous collaboration with iconic hard-boiled author Spillane (after 2012’s Lady, Go Die!) boasts a ridiculously high body count. In chapter one, PI Mike Hammer, who’s been working for American intelligence, admits...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, read by Stacy Keach, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-3514-0
A triple combination of talent comes together to bring the iconic Mike Hammer back for a new adventure. Collins, working with Spillane's incomplete manuscript and copious notes, has completed a sterling addition to the Hammer canon. The third...
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Sara Paretsky, Author, Barbara D'Amato, Author, Max Allan Collins, Author . Bleak House $27.95 (456p) ISBN 978-1-932557-50-3
This classy anthology of mostly original short stories from 21 renowned Windy City authors blends the blues, crime and Chicago, quite surpassing Akashic’s recent Chicago Noir
. Several series heroes make appearances, including Sara ParetskyR
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Various authors, read by Malcolm McDowell and a full cast. AudioGO, unabridged, four CDs, 4.25 hrs., $19.95 ISBN 978-1-62064-014-2
Twilight Zone and Night Gallery fans yearning for more dark, twisty dramas will enjoy this anthology of six terrifying stories from the likes of Max Allan Collins and M.J. Elliott. The performance of the cast of actors portraying human predators,...
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Barbara Collins, Author, Max Allan Collins, Author Five Star (ME) $26.95 (232p) ISBN 978-1-59414-202-4
Marilyn Monroe comes to the rescue of Nikita Khrushchev during the Russian leader's 1959 U.S. visit.
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paperback (240p) ISBN 978-1-78565-180-9
Set in 1975, MWA Grand Master Collins’s taut 14th Quarry novel (after 2016’s Quarry in the Black) presents a peculiar challenge for the professional hit man. Instead of simply killing his target, Quarry is tasked by his employer, the Broker, with...
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Max Allan Collins. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-5420-4058-7
In this disappointing standalone from MWA Grand Master Collins (the Nate Heller series), members of the Galena, Ill., high school class of 2009 gather in their hometown to celebrate their 10-year anniversary, including local Krista Larson, the...
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Max Allan Collins. Forge, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7829-3
MWA Grand Master Collins’s Zelig-like PI, Nate Heller, who’s tackled most of 20th-century America’s greatest unsolved mysteries, gets involved in the Sam Sheppard murder case in his superior 17th outing (after 2016’s Better Dead). When the Cleveland
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Max Allan Collins. Thomas & Mercer, $15.95 trade paper (282p) ISBN 978-1-5420-4253-6
When Hot Rod and the Pistons, an ’80s rock cover band, learn they will be inducted into the Iowa Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame in MWA Grand Master Collins’s unimpressive sequel to 2019’s Girl Most Likely, a reunion concert is scheduled in Galena, Ill....
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $12.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78909-668-2
MWA Grand Master Collins’s fine, action-packed 16th Quarry novel (after 2019’s Killing Quarry) brings the series to a fitting close. In 1983, Quarry, a former hit man who now goes after hit men, returns to the seedy club on Mississippi’s Biloxi...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $22.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-78909-852-5
In MWA Grand Master Collins’s superb 18th Nathan Heller novel, (after 2020’s Do No Harm), the PI crosses paths with Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa. It’s 1953 in Kansas City, Mo., when millionaire Robert Greenlease retains Heller’s services after his
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Max Allan Collins and Brad A. Schwartz. Morrow, $27.99 (704p) ISBN 978-0-06-244194-2
Mystery writer Collins (The Bloody Spur) and historian Schwartz (Broadcast Hysteria) dutifully trace the lives of Al Capone (1899–1947) and his lawman nemesis, Eliot Ness (1903–1957), in Prohibition-era Chicago. Drawing on a trove of sources,...
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Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz. Morrow, $29.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-288197-7
This meticulously researched but often gloomy account of the life and times of Eliot Ness from Collins and Schwartz (Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago) focuses on the legendary lawman’s career starting...
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Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor. Mysterious, $26.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-61316-379-5
In 1947, Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) unleashed his hyperbolic private eye and WWII vet, Mike Hammer, on the world with I, the Jury, a revenge saga that featured a major infusion of sexual innuendo and unfettered violence that scandalized not only...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Kensington, $24 (226p) ISBN 978-1-61773-598-1
Spillane and Collins’s well-crafted third Caleb York western (after 2016’s The Big Showdown) finds the former Wells Fargo detective—now sheriff of Trinidad, N.Mex.—enjoying the peaceful benefits
of being believed dead, but he soon has trouble on...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-785655-56-2
Set in 1989, MWA GrandMaster Collins’s competent 12th posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2019’s Murder, My Love) finds Mike Hammer still operating as a PI when the WWII vet would have been in his late 60s. That touch of realism allows...
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78565-945-4
MWA Grand Master Collins’s irresistible 15th Quarry novel (after 2017’s Quarry’s Climax) finds the professional assassin with a target on his own back. But why? Quarry is operating Wilma’s Welcome Inn in Geneva, Wis., as his “straight” occupation....
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Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $13.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-78909-141-0
This welcome collection from MWA Grand Master Collins Skim Deep offers two gritty crime novels, both first published in 1981, starring heist man Nolan. In the superior Fly Paper, the 50-year-old veteran thief of 20 years begins to go stir-crazy in...
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