Max Allan Collins

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  • Bibliography:
    207 Books (18 Series)
  • First Book:
    August 1957
  • Latest Book:
    January 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Bones

Buried Deep (Mar-2006)

Criminal Minds

Jump Cut (Nov-2007)
Killer Profile (May-2008)
Finishing School (Nov-2008)

CSI: New York

Bloody Murder (Mar-2006)

Dark Angel

1 - Before the Dawn (Oct-2002)
Skin Game (Feb-2003)
After the Dark (Jun-2003)

Disaster

The Titanic Murders (Apr-1999)
The Hindenburg Murders (Jun-2000)
The Pearl Harbor Murders (May-2001)
The Lusitania Murders (Nov-2002)
The London Blitz Murders (May-2004)
The War of the Worlds Murder (Jul-2005)

An Eliot Ness Novel

1 - The Dark City (1987)
2 - Butcher's Dozen (Oct-1988)
3 - Bullet Proof (Mar-1989)
4 - Murder by the Numbers (Mar-1993)

Frank Nolan

1 - Bait Money (1973)
2 - Blood Money (1973)
3 - Fly Paper (1981)
4 - Hard Cash (Dec-1981)
5 - Hush Money (Oct-1981)
6 - Scratch Fever (1982)
7 - Spree (Oct-1987)
8 - Mourn the Living (Dec-1999)

A GI Joe Novel

1 - Above and Beyond (May-2009)
2 - Rise of Cobra (Jun-2009)

J.C. Harrow

1 - You Can't Stop Me (Mar-2010)
2 - No One Will Hear You (Mar-2011)

Krista Larson

1 - Girl Most Likely (Apr-2019)
2 - Girl Can't Help It (Mar-2020)

Maggie Starr

1 - A Killing in Comics (May-2007)
2 - Strip For Murder (May-2008)

A Mallory Novel

1 - The Baby Blue Rip-Off (Dec-1982)
2 - No Cure for Death (Jun-1983)
3 - Kill Your Darlings (Oct-1984)
4 - A Shroud for Aquarius (Sep-1985)
5 - Nice Weekend for a Murder (Sep-1986)

Ms. Tree

1 - One Mean Mother (Sep-2019)
2 - Skeleton In The Closet (Oct-2020)

A Nathan Heller Novel

1 - True Detective (Jun-1983)
2 - True Crime (Dec-1984)
2.5 - Marble Mildred (Oct-1992)
3 - The Million Dollar Wound (Feb-1986)
4 - Neon Mirage (Feb-1988)
5 - Stolen Away (May-1991)
6 - Dying in the Post-War World (Oct-1991)
7 - Carnal Hours (Apr-1994)
8 - Blood and Thunder (Aug-1995)
9 - Damned in Paradise (Oct-1996)
10 - Flying Blind (Aug-1998)
11 - Majic Man (Sep-1999)
12 - Angel in Black (Mar-2001)
13 - Chicago Confidential (Jun-2002)
14 - Bye Bye, Baby (Aug-2011)
15 - Chicago Lightning (Oct-2011)
16 - Target Lancer (Dec-2012)
17 - Ask Not (Oct-2013)
17 - Do No Harm (Mar-2020)
18 - Better Dead (May-2016)
Triple Play (Apr-2012)

NYPD Blues

Blue Beginning (Sep-1995)
NYPD Blue (Dec-1995)
Blue Blood (Sep-1997)

The Perdition Saga

1 - Road to Perdition (May-1998)
2 - Road To Purgatory (Dec-2004)
3 - Road to Paradise (Dec-2005)

A Quarry Novel

1 - Quarry (Oct-1985)
2 - Quarry's List (Oct-1985)
3 - Quarry's Deal (Jul-1986)
4 - Quarry's Cut (Jul-1986)
5 - Primary Target (Oct-1987)
6 - Quarry's Greatest Hits (Sep-2003)
7 - The Last Quarry (Aug-2006)
8 - The First Quarry (Oct-2008)
9 - Quarry in the Middle (Nov-2009)
10 - Quarry's Ex (Oct-2010)
11 - The Wrong Quarry (Jan-2014)
12 - Quarry's Choice (Jan-2015)
13 - Quarry in the Black (Oct-2016)

A Reeder and Rogers Thriller

1 - Supreme Justice (Jun-2014)
2 - Fate of the Union (Nov-2015)
3 - Executive Order (Apr-2017)

Multi-Author Series List

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

1 - Double Dealer (Nov-2001)
2 - Sin City (Oct-2002)
3 - Cold Burn (Apr-2003)
4 - Body of Evidence (Oct-2003)
5 - Grave Matters (Oct-2004)
6 - Binding Ties (Apr-2005)
7 - Killing Game (Nov-2005)
8 - Snake Eyes (Sep-2006)

CSI: Miami

Florida Getaway (Aug-2003)
Heat Wave (Apr-2004)

DC Comics: Batman

Batman: Second Chances (Jul-2015)

Famous Characters: Batman

Batman: Second Chances (Jul-2015)

The X-Files

I Want to Believe (Aug-2008)

Book List in Order: 207 titles

  • Flower for the Butcher

  • Bait Money

    Frank Nolan - 1

  • Blood Money

    Frank Nolan - 2

    The mob couldn’t kill him, the cops couldn’t catch him, and even time wouldn’t slow him down. Playing dirty isn’t Nolan’s style … until he’s taken to the cleaners. Nolan was still alive; his wounds healed and...

  • The Broker's Wife

  • Fly Paper

    Frank Nolan - 3

    Making a score and settling one at the same time is a rare opportunity, enough to bring Nolan out of criminal retirement … but he didn’t count on the hillbillies or the skyjacker …Nolan is a pro, a veteran of mob vendettas and decad...

  • Hush Money

    Frank Nolan - 5

  • Hard Cash

    Frank Nolan - 4

    Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again--and play patsy to a sexy girl friend'...

  • Scratch Fever

    Frank Nolan - 6

    Return of a femme fatale. Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie's "problem" list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can't do the job, Julie will do it hers...

  • The Baby Blue Rip-Off

    A Mallory Novel - 1

    Vietnam vet Mallory has been everywhere and done everything—from hippie life to construction work, from covering a reporter’s beat to walking a cop’s—before finally returning to small-town Iowa to try his hand at writing. In b...



  • No Cure for Death

    A Mallory Novel - 2

    What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you’re a guy like Mallory, it’s the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With...

  • True Detective

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 1

    The return of the Shamus award-winning crime novel by the author of the box office smash Road To Perdition. The first volume in the Nathaniel Heller 'Frank Nitti Trilogy' featuring the real-life mobster played in Road To Perdition by Stanley Tucci. N...

  • One Lonely Knight

  • Kill Your Darlings

    A Mallory Novel - 3

    When a once-revered author is found murdered in his Chicago hotel room during the Boucheron, an annual gathering of mystery writers and fans, Mallory must contend with the victim's gorgeous widow, a dishonest bookseller, and a host of tempermental au...

  • True Crime

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 2

    1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin P...

  • A Shroud for Aquarius

    A Mallory Novel - 4

    The sixties are dead…and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things—free spirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler—but first and foremost she was mystery writer Mallory’s friend and confidant since childhood. So Mallory under...

  • Quarry

    A Quarry Novel - 1

    THE CRIME FICTION CLASSIC: Meet Quarry -- an ex-Marine sniper and hired killer with a taste for justice -- in this “fast-paced, sexy, violent, and entertaining” series kick-off (BookReporter). The assignment was simple: stake out the man’s home...

  • Quarry's List

    A Quarry Novel - 2

    SOMETIMES INFORMATIONCAN BE THE MOST DANGEROUS WEAPONWhen the man he worked for abruptly exits the business, Quarry finds himself in the crosshairs as a rival tries to take over. But what does Quarry have that the new man wants? And how did the beaut...

  • Dick Tracy; Tracy's Wartime Memories

  • The Million Dollar Wound

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 3

    In the conclusion to the Frank Nitti trilogy, Nate Heller, along with buddy Barney Ross, fights at Guadalcanal and, upon returning home to Chicago, finds the combat there, with Nitti's mobsters, every bit as hellish...



  • Quarry's Cut

    A Quarry Novel - 4

    It’s normal to see bodies on the set of an adult film. But when they’re dead bodies " and the cast and crew discover they’re trapped in a house with a serial killer " Quarry’s got his work cut out for him.NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!T...

  • Quarry's Deal

    A Quarry Novel - 3

    Behind the doors of an illegal casino, will Quarry find Lady Luck or a lady killer?As part of his plan to target other hitmen, Quarry follows one from steamy Florida to the sober Midwest. But this killer isn’t a man at all " she’s a sloe-eyed b...

  • Nice Weekend for a Murder

    A Mallory Novel - 5

    When Mallory journeys to a New York mansion to meet his fellow mystery writers for a game of who-done-it, he witnesses a real murder, a snowstorm cuts off the outside world, and all of the evidence disappears. Reprint....

  • Midnight Haul

    When Crane, a graduate journalism student, hears that his fiancée has committed suicide, he’s immediately suspicious and launches into an investigation of her death. The tiny New Jersey town she lived in has seen a rash of suicides lately, with...

  • The Dark City

    An Eliot Ness Novel - 1

    After The Untouchables, Eliot Ness goes solo. In 1929, Eliot Ness put away Al Scarface Capone and became the biggest living legend this side of law and order. Now it's 1935. With The Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression fa...

  • Primary Target

    A Quarry Novel - 5

  • Spree

    Frank Nolan - 7

    The taut, final crime novel in Max Allan Collins's Nolan series. Both Nolan and his friend Jon have retired from the dangerous game of robbery. But a backwoods hoodlum named Cole Comfort kidnaps Nolan's girlfriend and demands he pull one final, huge ...

  • Neon Mirage

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 4

    In 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting d...

  • Ms. Tree

    The collected casebooks of famed ‘80s private eye, Ms. Tree.When her private detective husband is murdered by the Muerta crime family, Ms. Tree takes over the business! Cold, calculating and tough as nails, no case is too small, no violence too ext...

  • Butcher's Dozen

    An Eliot Ness Novel - 2

    Award-winning author Max Allan Collins has skillfully woven fact and fiction to create a unique mystery series based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes, Eliot Ness.The former Untouchable teams up with a rookie cop, a h...



  • Bullet Proof

    An Eliot Ness Novel - 3

    THEY COULDN'T BUY NESS OR BREAK HIM...SO THEY TRIED TO KILL HIM.Cleveland's a solid union town, but organized crime has put the squeeze on labor with an extortion ring that doesn't stop at murder. Everyone's on the take--everyone except Eliot Ness, w...

  • Dick Tracy

  • Dick Tracy Casebook

  • Not A Creature Was Stirring

    in Dick Tracy: The Secret Files

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...

  • Dick Tracy and the Nightmare Machine

  • Dick Tracy Goes to War

  • Stolen Away

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 5

    March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh’s inn...

  • Dying in the Post-War World

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 6

  • Tough Tender

    Has Nolan met his match? MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ veteran thief faces off against a cold-blooded femme fatale in this double-length adventure originally published as two complete novels and unavailable in stores for three decades.“Pulp ...

  • Dick Tracy Meets His Match



  • Marble Mildred

    in Women on the Edge
    A Nathan Heller Novel - 2.5

    Women become the protagonists in an anthology of fourteen mystery stories by Sara Paretsky, Barbara Michaels, Nancy Pickard, Loren D. Estleman, John D. MacDonald, and Bill Pronzini, among others. Reprint....

  • Murder by the Numbers

    An Eliot Ness Novel - 4

    Based on the life and exploits of one of America's most memorable heroes - award-winning author Max Allan Collins delivers a fast-paced, one-two punch of crime and mystery. In 1938 Cleveland, Eliot Ness finds himself in the midst of a racially explos...

  • Line of Fire

    Torn apart by his inability to protect President Kennedy from assassination thirty years earlier, Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan must overcome his personal demons to protect a new president from a deadly contract killer. Movie tie-in....

  • Carnal Hours

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 7

    Investigating the background of a billionaire recluse's new son-in-law, detective Nathan Heller arrives at the Bahamas just in time to learn of his new client's death, and the son-in-law needs Nathan to save him from a murder rap. Reprint....

  • Maverick

  • I Love Trouble

    This novel is based on the film of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte. The story is of two rival reporters who engage in a no-holds-barred battle to scoop each other, who end up falling in love....

  • Reincarnal

    in Deadly After Dark (The Hot Blood Series)

  • Waterworld

    In a future world of global warming that has covered all land masses with water, a single man learns of the possibility of dry land and challenges the remaining human survivors to help in the search. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Blood and Thunder

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 8

    Journeying to New York to protect a controversial presidential candidate from a death threat, Nate Heller is unable to succeed in his task and confronts the local authorities as well as the political elite during his investigation. Reprint....

  • Blue Beginning

    NYPD Blues

    Written as a stunning prequel to the smash television series of the same name, NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning is the latest hard-edged crime story. With all the in-your-face realism and action of the thrilling television show, this new series of novels is...



  • NYPD Blue

    NYPD Blues

  • Damned in Paradise

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 9

    Nathan Heller teams up with legendary attorney Clarence Darrow to help solve the infamous "Massie" case, in which a beautiful Hawaiian socialite, Thalia Massie, blames a group of island natives for her rape, leaving Heller to delve into a world rife ...

  • Daylight

    When a massive explosion rips through the Manhattan commuter tunnel, trapping dozens of people in the thinning air under the Hudson river, EMS search and rescue tech Kit Latura launches a bold rescue plan. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Vengeance Is Hers

    An anthology of fifteen mystery stories by women, featuring female sleuths and vigilantes who exact murderous retribution against male evil-doers, includes stories by Joan Hess, Sharyn McCrumb, Nancy Pickard, and Margaret Maron, among others. Origina...

  • Air Force One

    AIR FORCE ONE It is called the flying White House, the most tightly guarded airborne fortress in the world . . . until now. Terrorists have seized Air Force One thirty thousand feet above the earth. The president, the first lad...

  • Blue Blood

    NYPD Blues

    When a pair of armed intruders bursts into Detective Andy Sipowicz's apartment, he quickly concludes they are out to get him, and that he has put his new wife in danger. But everyone involved in the case believes Andy's wife, a prosecutor who has mad...

  • Mommy

    As violence and death erupt around her, young Jessica Ann begins to suspect that her loving mother will do anything - even murder - to keep her daughter at the top of her class.She's pretty, she's perfect, she's June Cleaver with a cleaver, and you d...

  • U.S. Marshals

  • Mommy's Day

    Jessica Ann's mommy has been away for a while...When the police found out what she had done to those people, they sent Mommy to a place where she couldn't hurt anyone - including Jessica Ann - anymore.But now Mommy's been released and she's coming ho...

  • Road to Perdition

    The Perdition Saga - 1

    THEY CALL HIM THE ANGEL OF DEATH. His real name is Michael Sullivan, professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of the 1930s and an enigmatic idol to his adoring young sons. He's a man who knows that loyalties vanish in the dark -- a viol...

  • Flying Blind

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 10

    Nathan Heller is hired to protect Amelia Earhart after she begins receiving threatening letters, but is unable to travel with her during her flights, thus after her disappearance, Nathan is determined to find out what happened to her....

  • Saving Private Ryan

  • A Bird for Becky

    in Mob Magic

    MICKEY ZUCKER REICHERT * MIKE RESNICK * SIMON HAWKE * JEFF GRUBB * MAX ALLAN COLLINS * ROLAND GREEN * JODY LYNN NYE * AND OTHER LITERARY GANGBUSTERS Ever since human society began there have been crimes, and even in the realm of the fantastic, the...

  • The Titanic Murders

    Disaster

    THE CHARACTERS IN THIS NOVEL ARE REAL. THE MURDERS ARE A MYSTERY. Jacques Futrelle was among the many famous passengers who boarded the R.M.S. Titanic on April 10, 1912. One of the most celebrated American mystery writers of his time, Futrelle was...

  • The Mummy

    Based on the universal studios major motion picture starring brendan fraser!

    Rick O'Connell, dashing American and legionnaire, is in Egypt looking for a good time. His discovery of the Lost City of the Dead is a fluke--but to British librarian...

  • Majic Man

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 11

    It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli agents, and...

  • Mourn the Living

    Frank Nolan - 8

    The original novel in Max Allan Collins's series about professional thief Nolan. The death of a friend's daughter leads Nolan to a small Illinois college town where the mob has murderous rivals in the drug trade. Says The Big Book of Noir: "There's n...

  • U-571

    Hell is Under Water

    Their mission was a audacious and daring as it was dangerous. A crew of American sailors in a disguised submarine would rendezvous with U-571--a crippled German U-boat in enemy waters--storm aboard, and ...

  • The Hindenburg Murders

    Disaster

    IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HINDENBURG TRAGEDY, ONLY ONE SURVIVOR KNEW THE FRIGHTENING TRUTH. The date is May 3, 1937. The legendary Hindenburg has just left Frankfurt on its final, fateful voyage across the Atlantic. And passenger Leslie Charteris ha...

  • Angel in Black

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 12

    Her quest for Hollywood fame ended in an abandoned lot --in a murder so sordid that the details are hidden from the public. The newspapers call her the Black Dahlia. Nathan Heller knew her as Elizabeth Short. But revealing their relationship will onl...

  • Flesh & Blood

  • The Mummy Returns

    The ancient Egyptian monster returns to once again menace the world, in a novelization of the blockbuster sequel to The Mummy. Original. (A Universal Pictures film, written by Stephen Sommers, releasing Memorial Day weekend, starring Brendan ...

  • The Pearl Harbor Murders

    Disaster

    On the eve of World War II, Edgar Rice Burroughs is enjoying the peace of Hawaii, until he stumbles upon the body of Pearl Harada, a popular, young Japanese-American singer, on the beach, but his investigation into the crime is soon interrupted by th...

  • Unreasonable Doubt

    in And the Dying is Easy

    WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...

  • Kisses of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook

  • Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides

    A CORNUCOPIA OF HOLIDAY-THEMED TALES OF CRIME AND MYSTERY.Master storyteller, Max Allan Collins tells crime stories for every holiday: Christmas, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.A Wreath for Marley adds i...

  • History of Mystery

    Footprints, a smoking revolver, broken glass . . . Whodunit? Get to the bottom of things with Max Allan Collins, who puts the enigmatic, endlessly fascinating world of the mystery genre under the magnifying glass in THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY. Starting w...

  • Windtalkers

    During the invasion of Sai-pan near the end of World War II, Marine Joe Enders is given the task of protecting Navajo radioman Ben Yahzee, called a codetalker, or killing him if he falls into enemy Japanese hands....

  • Double Dealer

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 1

    Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas--the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift--including Catherine Willows, Warri...

  • The Scorpion King

    As the warlord Memnon gains control of the Middle East, he seeks to fulfill prophecy by becoming the Scorpion King, but Mathayus, an Akkadian assassin, has plans to stop him with the help of Memnon's own sorceress, Cassandra....

  • Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires

    Sex and violence. They go together like greed and blackmail and jealousy and murder. Now acclaimed masters and rising stars of today's crime and mystery fiction offer erotic tales, luring you into the seductively dangerous realm of flesh and blood....

  • Chicago Confidential

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 13

    In 1950, when a congressional investigation into organized crime sparks an all-out mob war that claims the life of his partner, private detective Nathan Heller returns to his native Chicago to find the killer. Reprint....

  • Before the Dawn

    Dark Angel - 1

    The never-before-told story of action and adventure revealing the early days of Dark Angel! Los Angeles, 2019. Large sections of Tinseltown are in Richter-scale ruins in the aftermath of the Pulse and a devastating earthquake. Surviving among a ra...

  • I Spy

    Alex Scott is an ace special government agent who loves his job and his country. Kelly Robinson is a boxing superstar who loves the limelight, the ladies ... and himself. No two men could be less alike -- but now they're going to have to work togethe...

  • Sin City

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 2

    Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas--the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift--including Catherine Willows, Warri...

  • The Lusitania Murders

    Disaster

    On May 7, 1915, the luxury liner Lusitania was struck by-a German torpedo. Sinking within eighteen minutes--and claiming the lives of twelve hundred people--it was a pivotal event of the First World War that has been shrouded in mystery... Critic ...

  • Skin Game

    Dark Angel

    The saga of Dark Angel continues!

    Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have p...

  • Cold Burn

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 3

    Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing -- most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and...

  • Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin

    A third anthology of erotic short works that combines the themes of sex and crime features contributions by such writers as O'Neil DeNoux, David Fulmer, and Rex Miller. Original. 15,000 first printing....

  • Johnny Dynamite

    The Wild Man from Chicago! He's rough! He's tough! He's JOHNNY DYNAMITE! A rock 'em/sock 'em private eye from the Windy City, with his best gal, and faithful secretary, Judy Kane by his side, in this hard-boiled Mike hammer-influen...

  • On the Road to Perdition - Oasis

    Renegade mob hitman Michael O'Sullivan--the "Angel of Death"--and his older son Michael Jr. rob rural banks to strike back at the Capone gang in hopes of forcing them to surrender Connor Looney, the man responsible for killing the rest of the family....

  • After the Dark

    Dark Angel

    Secrets and betrayals, as the saga of Dark Angel continues! In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max discovers a shatterin...

  • Florida Getaway

    CSI: Miami

    Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to tho...

  • Quarry's Greatest Hits

    A Quarry Novel - 6

    New York Times bestselling author

    An icon of noir anti-heroes, Max Allan Collins's taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and '80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a...

  • Body of Evidence

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 4

    Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the hel...

  • Dick Tracy; The Collins Casefiles, Volume 1

  • Sanctuary

  • Dick Tracy; The Collins Casefiles, Volume 3

  • Heat Wave

    CSI: Miami

    Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to tho...

  • The London Blitz Murders

    Disaster

    When a modern-day Jack the Ripper terrorizes the city of London after the German Blitz, legendary pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury joins forces with Agatha Christie, England's First Lady of Crime, to catch a killer. Original....

  • Comics Prose

  • Dick Tracy; The Collins Casefiles, Volume 2

  • On the Road to Perdition: Detour

    In the best-selling graphic novel, The Road to Perdition, by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, readers were introduced to Michael O'Sullivan, the legendary Tri-Cities "Angel of Death" - and his son, Michael Jr. The inspiration for 2002's sm...

  • Grave Matters

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 5

    Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's g...

  • Two for the Money

    Hard Case Crime - 5

    To wipe the slate clean with an old enemy, professional thief Nolan agrees to pull one last bank heist -- but when he's double-crossed, he'll stop at nothing to get back what's his. Fortunately, Nolan has a couple of things going for him: an uncanny ...

  • On the Road

  • Road To Purgatory

    The Perdition Saga - 2

    It's 1942, and -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific -- the world is torn apart. Ten years earlier Michael O'Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his mother and young brother. After an idyllic upbri...

  • Serial

    With a brutal serial killer on the loose in Las Vegas, Gil Grissom and his CSI team search for the person responsible for a series of vicious Jack the Ripper style killings, a crime spree complicated by the presence of an annual convention gathering ...

  • Binding Ties

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 6

    Ten years ago, Las Vegas was terrorized by "CAST" -- a vicious serial killer responsible for nearly half a dozen brutal murders, and who tested the mettle of the LVPD's new Captain, Jim Brass. After a two-year spree, CASt suddenly disappeared and has...

  • The Pink Panther

    Oui, the mystery of the missing Pink Panther Diamond is as good as solved! Only one question remains: Who stole the Pink Panther Diamond? A famous coach is murdered in a crowded stadium. His most-prized possession -- a ring set with the stunnin...

  • The War of the Worlds Murder

    Disaster

    New York City, October 1938. The shadow of war in Europe falls ominously across the face of America. Yet, it is another Shadow the mystery man of the radio airwaves voiced by Orson Welles -- who captures the imagination of listeners across the nation...

  • Castlevania: The Belmont Legacy

    • It is 1576, and the legend of the Belmont family's vampire-hunting prowess still echoes through the Romanian countryside. While Christopher Belmont celebrates his nuptials, dark forces conspire to raise Count Dracula from his unholy slumber....

  • Killing Game

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 7

    The machinations of a new supervisor may have altered Gil Grissom's team of skillful CSIs, as Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Warrick Brown are reassigned from the graveyard shift to the swing shift. That doesn't mean, however, that their paths w...

  • Road to Paradise

    The Perdition Saga - 3

    As a young man, Michael Satariano fought Capone's gang in Chicago. Now in comfortable middle-age, he runs a mob casino in Lake Tahoe, with a loving wife, a teenage daughter, and a son earning medals in Vietnam. The year is 1973, and he believes his k...

  • Bloody Murder

    CSI: New York

    • A young woman is slashed to death in a city park after dark, and when witnesses tell Mac Taylor and Stella Bonasera of a beast-like attacker, the specter of a local urban legend rears its head. These CSIs have seen just about everything -- ...

  • Buried Deep

    Bones

    Tempe's work at the Jeffersonian Institute is put on hold when Special Agent Seeley Booth, stalled on a case deposing a Chicago mob family, calls her in to assist with a bizarre discovery: a plastic bag of skeletal remains -- and a chilling note -- l...

  • The Last Quarry

    A Quarry Novel - 7
    Hard Case Crime - 23

    The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hitman into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one: Why, Quarry wonders...

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Case Files, Volume 1

    • CSI Case Files: Volume One collects three original IDW published CSI comic book mini-series: CSI: Serial, CSI: Bad Rap and CSI: Demon House in one specially priced volume.
    ...

  • Snake Eyes

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - 8

    Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds...

  • My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence

  • A Killing in Comics

    Maggie Starr - 1

    In Manhattan of 1948, a famous former striptease artist named Maggie Starr runs her late husband's newspaper syndicate, distributing the superhero comic Wonder Guy. But when the cartoon's publisher winds up dead, Maggie hunts for the killer among a c...

  • American Gangster

    The novelization of the major motion picture from Universal Pictures about Frank Lucas, drug czar of Harlem. The film stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, and is directed by Ridley Scott. For decades the Mafia controlled the flow of heroin ont...

  • Jump Cut

    Criminal Minds

    The Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers, are tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds-anticipating their next moves before they strike again...

    Learn more about the Criminal Minds television series....

  • Deadly Beloved

    Hard Case Crime - 38

    Marcy Addwatter killed her husband--there's no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too. But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree--Ms...

  • Bad Rap

    A duel between retro-punk rappers from the white-hot music scene in Las Vegas ends with one of them murdered. The problem for Gil Grissom and his team of crime scene investigators isn't a lack of suspects, it's too many-each with his or her own reaso...

  • Killer Profile

    Criminal Minds

    They're members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds--and anticipating their next moves before they strike again.... The BAU team is called in to help Chicag...

  • Strip For Murder

    Maggie Starr - 2

    GLAMOROUS MAGGIE STARR IS AMERICA'S MOST FAMOUS EX-STRIPTEASE ARTIST. THE DIVA CONTINUES "STRIPPING" THROUGH HER LATE HUSBAND'S NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE--DISTRIBUTING COMIC S TRIPS--WITH HER STEPSON, JACK STARR, HER V.P. AND CHIEF TROUBLESHOOTER. AND WHEN...

  • Demon House

    • It's all tricks and no treats for Grissom and crew! When a real body turns up in a charity haunted house, the members of Las Vegas's CSI team -- already busy on a series of armed robberies -- find themselves pulling double duty.
  • Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    The sequel to The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. Rick and Evelyn O’Connell answer a new call to adventure -- as an ancient evil rises to threaten the world.When dashing adventurer Alex O’Connell is tricked into awakening China’s ruthless Dragon ...

  • I Want to Believe

    The X-Files

    In the bitter heart of a brutal winter, women are inexplicably vanishing in rural Virginia. The only clues to the bizarre disappearances are grotesque remains -- human remains -- that are turning up in snow banks along the highway. And a disgraced pr...

  • Sex, Lies And Private Eyes

    • When it comes to sex, lies often follow... and in the dark heart of the city, death can be the ultimate payback! Moonstone Books, publisher of fine books and comics since 1995, is proud to present this landmark collection of all-new, origina...

  • The First Quarry

    A Quarry Novel - 8
    Hard Case Crime - 48

    Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels--most recently THE LAST QUARRY, which told the story of the assassin's final assignment (and was the basis for the feature film The Last Lullaby...

  • Finishing School

    Criminal Minds

    Meet the Behavioral Analysis Unit, an elite team of FBI profilers tasked with examining the nation's most twisted criminal minds -- and anticipating their next moves before they strike again.... Three shallow graves are unearthed in the woods of B...

  • Above and Beyond

    A GI Joe Novel - 1

    IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE, THERE ARE MANY HEROES. Part of an elite covert military team, Lieutenant Duke Hauser and his buddy Ripcord Weems are dispatched to the small oil-rich South American country of San Sebastiao to help quell a revolution. The mu...

  • Rise of Cobra

    A GI Joe Novel - 2

    WHEN A NEW BREED OF EVIL EMERGES, A NEW BREED OF SOLDIER MUST FIGHT IT. While convoying new high-tech weaponry in Central Asia, Captain Duke Hauser and his right-hand man, Ripcord Weems, along with their NATO Special Forces Unit, are ambushed by ...

  • Quarry in the Middle

    A Quarry Novel - 9
    Hard Case Crime - 61

    The enigmatic hitman Quarry -- star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film ("The Last Lullaby") -- is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two rival casino owners covet the same territory, guess who ...

  • CSI Omnibus Volume 1

    • This first CSI Omnibus collection volume includes CSI: Serial, about a modern-day Jack the Ripper terrorizing Las Vegas; CSI: Bad Rap, where a duel between retro-punk rappers ends with one of them dead; and CSI: Demon House, where the CSI te...

  • You Can't Stop Me

    J.C. Harrow - 1

    Smalltown sheriff J.C. Harrow made headlines when he apprehended a would-be presidential assassin -- only to come home that night and find his wife and son brutally murdered. This tragic twist of fate launched his career as the host of reality TV's s...

  • Grave Matter

    in Crimes by Moonlight

    An all-new mystery anthology edited and featuring a new story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris edits and contributes...

  • Quarry's Ex

    A Quarry Novel - 10

    BECAUSE HOMICIDE BEGINS AT HOME Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no b...

  • Quarry's Vote

    ASK NOT WHO YOU CAN KILL FOR YOUR COUNTRYNow retired and happily married, Quarry turns down a million-dollar contract to assassinate a presidential candidate. It’s not the sort of assignment you can just walk away from without consequences -- ...

  • No One Will Hear You

    J.C. Harrow - 2

    The first video arrives by email. An unidentifed man. A naked woman. Her scream caught in a freeze-frame. The producers of TV's Crime Seen! can't believe what they're witnessing -- an all-out sadist "auditioning" for a starring role in reality televi...

  • Bye Bye, Baby

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 14

    It's 1962, and Twentieth Century Fox is threatening to fire Marilyn Monroe. The blond goddess hires Nate Heller, private eye to the stars, to tap her phone so she will have a record of their calls in case they take her to court. When Heller starts li...

  • Chicago Lightning

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 15

    In "The Blonde Tigress," Heller encounters a vicious hold-up crew with a brutal female leader, while in "Scrap" he investigates a union shooting that has national implications. In "The Perfect Crime" he goes Hollywood to protect the lovely Thelma Tod...

  • Road to Perdition 2: On the Road

    These thrilling tales are set during the six-month period in which Michael O’Sullivan and his son were on the run. In Oaisis, Michael Jr. contracts a life-threatening illness, forcing him to hide out in an oasis of tranquility. The story continues ...

  • Crimespree Magazine #9 and 10

    Issues 9 and 10 of Crimespree Magazine (Nov/Dec 2005 and Jan/Feb 2005) are collected in a single eBook. The cover of Issue 9 featured Max Allan Collins interviewed by Sean Chercover and Steven Torres talked with Manual Ramos. Alafair Burke was interv...

  • Triple Play

    A Nathan Heller Novel

    Since his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, Chicago-based private eye Nathan Heller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the classic gumshoe is back in this c...

  • Return to Perdition

    A new chapter in the saga of the O’Sullivan crime family from the acclaimed movie ROAD TO PERDITION. The time is America in the early 1970’s and our third generation hero, Michael Satariano, Jr. is a Vietnam vet recently returned to the States...

  • Target Lancer

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 16

    Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, “P.I. to the Stars,” knows that a conspiracy is in the works. Several years earlier, Heller had been involved with the Kennedys, the Mob, and the CIA in the early stages of a plan to assassinate Fidel...

  • Seduction of the Innocent

    It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications sh...

  • Early Crimes

    For fans of the popular author of Road to Perdition, here is an opportunity to see a young writer developing his themes and techniques. Two short stories from the late 1960s reveal the strong influences of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain on Max Allan ...

  • What Doesn't Kill Her

    Jordan Rivera was an ordinary kid with an ordinary family. Until a vicious killer took it all away from her, sparing her and leaving her broken. The murders destroyed something inside her and she spent ten long, silent years in an institution. Catchi...

  • Ask Not

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 17

    Chicago, September 1964. Beatlemania sweeps the nation, the Vietnam War looms, and the Warren Commission prepares to blame a "lone-nut" assassin for the killing of President John F. Kennedy. But as the post-Camelot era begins, a suspicious outbreak o...

  • A Wreath for Marley

  • The Wrong Quarry

    A Quarry Novel - 11

    A HIT. AND A MISS. Quarry doesn't kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his marked-for-death clients of two services: eliminating the killers sent after them, and finding out who hired them…and t...

  • Flowers for Bill O'Reilly

    In post WW2 Chicago, private eye Richard Stone goes to a small idyllic town to recover the body of an old friend struck down by a car. Stone's late pal had been on hard times, drinking, working odd jobs, and his death seemed tragic but understandable...

  • Supreme Justice

    A Reeder and Rogers Thriller - 1

    After taking a bullet for his commander-in-chief, Secret Service agent Joseph Reeder is a hero. But his outspoken criticism of the president he saved -- who had stacked the Supreme Court with hard-right justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, amp up the Pa...

  • Firecracker Kill

  • Quarry's Choice

    A Quarry Novel - 12

    Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent South to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city -- with sin everywhere, and betrayal around every corner -- Quarry must make...

  • Cat's-eye Witness

  • His Father's Ghost

    A SHORT STORY FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF "ROAD TO PERDITION""His Father's Ghost," a Halloween-meets-Father's Day study of an adopted boy's search for the killer of the father he never met....

  • Inconvenience Store

  • Batman: Second Chances

    DC Comics: Batman
    Famous Characters: Batman

    The Dark Knight. The Boy Wonder. The Dynamic Duo. Together, Batman and Robin have kept the streets of Gotham City safe-while the boy beneath the mask, Dick Grayson, has kept Bruce Wayne from a lonely life of brooding darkness. But when a bullet fired...

  • Catgate

    FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF "ROAD TO PERDITION"Another thrilling feline story by Max Allan Collins where a senator's murder of his mistress causes serious, and interesting, trouble....

  • Fate of the Union

    A Reeder and Rogers Thriller - 2

    When a retired colleague dies of an apparent suicide, ex-Secret Service agent Joe Reeder knows there must be far more to the story. Why did the man leave a desperate message for Reeder moments before dying? And what could possibly make such a seasone...

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Serial

    With a distinct balance of action, humor and suspense, not to mention sexy girls, Danger Girl is a unique take on the spy genre. Join Abbey Chase and the rest of the Danger Girls as they battle the Hammer Syndicate, a nefarious organization Hell-bent...

  • Better Dead

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 18

    It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made friends with a young staffe...

  • Quarry in the Black

    A Quarry Novel - 13

    WHERE DOES A HIT MAN DRAW THE LINE? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner f...

  • Executive Order

    A Reeder and Rogers Thriller - 3

    In Eastern Europe four CIA agents are dead -- geopolitical pawns caught in border dispute cross fire. Why were they there? Who sent them? Not even the President knows. Back in Washington, the Secretary of the Interior dies from an apparent allergi...

  • Quarry's Climax

    From the award-winning author of ROAD TO PERDITION, the new QUARRY novel continues the deadly story of the assassin who stars in the acclaimed Cinemax original series Memphis, 1975. “Raunchy” doesn’t begin to describe Max Climer’s magazine, C...

  • A Good Head on His Shoulders

    In Chicago, in the early 1930s, gang wars are an everyday occurrence. Mobster Louie Carboni is used to such violence. But what can the hideous decapitation murders of seven college professors, courtesy of a maniac dubbed the Mangler, have to do with ...

  • Mercy

    Mercy Mathers looks like a blonde angel, but everyone knows she’s the wildest party girl in Clarion High. But when her boozy, slutty antics cause the death of nearly the entire high school football team’s starting lineup, Mercy seeks forgiveness ...

  • Wolf

    At rustic Wagon Wheel Lodge, a vicious killer has struck, but while the police seek a man, the real predator is a werewolf.Jack Wolff has feasted upon the flesh of women for decades, a smooth, handsome charmer living off inherited money, moving from ...

  • Quarry's War

    Brand new graphic novel by Max Allan Collins, creator of the highly acclaimed long-running Hard Case Crime series Quarry, now a major TV series!

    1970s Chicago and the grim brutality of the Vietnam War collide in this brand new comic title feat...

  • USS Powderkeg

  • Girl Most Likely

    Krista Larson - 1

    It’s never too late for revenge in this thrilling novel by New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime master Max Allan Collins.

    In a small Midwest town, twenty-eight-year-old Krista Larson has made her mark as the youngest female p...

  • One Mean Mother

    Ms. Tree - 1

    From the minds of Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the first collection of five classic Ms Tree comics. Follow the private investigator Ms. Michael Tree through even more thriling cases, as she races to solve ...

  • Killing Quarry

    The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns with an all-new assignment. By Quarry's creator, the award-wining author of Road to Perdition!Quarry, star of 13 previous novels, a comic book and the acclaimed Cinemax TV series,...

  • Girl Can't Help It

    Krista Larson - 2

    A rock band’s reunion is looking more like a farewell tour in a captivating mystery by New York Times bestselling and award-winning crime master Max Allan Collins. No sooner do Hot Rod and the Pistons reunite for their induction into the Iowa Ro...

  • Do No Harm

    A Nathan Heller Novel - 17

    Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Heller series by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. It's 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case―a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally mu...

  • Johnny Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics - The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi's Wild Man of Chicago

    Fight crime alongside the one-eyed, two fisted Chicago private eye in these explosive comics from the early 1950s!

    At the height of the Mickey Spillane crime novel craze of the early 1950s came Johnny Dynamite to rival Mike Hammer in wild, sex...

  • Murderlized

    A COLLECTION OF EXCITING, SUSPENSEFUL TALES.The title story, Murderlized, finds Moe Howard of The Three Stooges playing amateur private eye in Hollywood of 1937, solving the murder of the man the comedy team stooged for, Ted Healy.Moe isn't the only ...

  • Ms. Tree Volume 2: Skeleton in the Closet

    Her business is deadly and always ends with a smoking gun! From write Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry, Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer) and artist Terry Beatty (Return to Perdition, The Phantom Batman: Gotham Adventures) comes the s...

  • Skeleton In The Closet

    Ms. Tree - 2

    From the minds of Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the second collection of five classic Ms Tree comics. Follow the private investigator Ms. Michael Tree through even more thriling cases, as she races to solve...

  • Reincarnal and Other Dark Tales

    A young woman's terrible nightmares are a projection of a serial killer's mad murders... Prepare to meet a seductive vampire preying on the homeless, a mobster who meets his murderous match, a sexual predator who selects the wrong victim, a psychotic...

  • Shoot The Moon (and more)

    AN OFF-THE-WALL ROMP AND OTHER EXHILARATING CRIME STORIES. Recent almost-college-grad Fred Kitchen and his eccentric six-foot-four pal, Wheaty, pay off a poker debt with a prank - showing their stuff in the then-current fad of streaking. Soon they ar...

  • Skim Deep

    The first new Nolan novel in 33 years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition.The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his lo...

  • Double Down

    Veteran thief Nolan tangles with a skyjacker and vigilante in two full-length novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), collected in one volume for the first time ever.It Takes a Thief to Take a Thief.In the aftermath of a bloody...

  • Dark Angel

  • Ms. Tree Volume 3: A Cold Dish

    From the minds of Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty comes another astounding collection of Ms. Tree comics featuring four classic crime cases, plus two bonus short stories. Follow Ms. Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm-carry...

  • Suspense-His & Hers

    Husband-and-wife mystery writing team Barbara and Max Allan Collins are showcased in this eclectic new collection of short stories, written individually and together.In tales spanning from noir to horror, and genres ranging from police procedural to ...

  • Ms. Tree Vol. 3

    From the minds of Road to Perdition author Max Allan Collin and artist Terry Beatty, comes the third collection of five classic Ms Tree comics. Follow the private investigator Ms. Michael Tree through even more thrilling cases, as she racesto solve c...

  • Quarry's Blood

    The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry’s creator, the award-winning author of Road to Perdition!QUARRY'S VIOLENT PAST COMES LOOKING FOR HIMThe professional hitman known as Quarry -- star of th...

  • Kill Me If You Can

    Mike Hammer hits his 75th anniversary hard, after the disappearance of Velda, in this brand new case set between Kiss Me, Deadly and The Girl Hunters, based on an unproduced screenplay from Mickey Spillane’s archives.Mike Hammer is on the case, thi...

  • Ms. Tree Volume 4: Deadline

    The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins!From the minds of author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fourth collection of 5 classic Ms Tree s...

  • Ms. Tree: Deadline

    The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins!From the minds of author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fourth collection of 5 classic Ms Tree s...

  • The Big Bundle

    True Crime detective Nathan Heller returns in a brand new case that connects a millionaire’s kidnapped child to Robert F. Kennedy’s campaign to bring down union boss Jimmy Hoffa.Nathan Heller, star of MWA Grandmaster Max Allan Collins’ most acc...

  • Fancy Anders for the Boys

    Fancy Anders returns in Fancy Anders for the Boys, the second of three thrilling mysteries by Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins.Hollywood, 1942. Hedonistic socialite turned undercover detective and poster girl for the war effort, Fancy Ande...

  • Mad Money

    Nolan must rob every store in a mall in one night " or his girlfriend dies. Two Nolan novels from Grandmaster Max Allan Collins, collected in one volume for the first time.Nolan and Jon have put their lives of crime behind them " but when a cruel...

  • Dig Two Graves

    Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter, 1969. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Velda learns her fathe...

  • Too Many Bullets

    Acclaimed “True Crime” detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel from bestselling ROAD TO PERDITION author Max...

  • Ms Tree: Heroine Withdrawl

    The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition)! Fans of pulp noir and hard-boiled detective crime fiction will love this seminal collection of cl...

  • Ms. Tree Volume 5: Heroine Withdrawal

    Ms. Tree is back with this new anthology of classic detective stories. Join the 6ft, 9mm wielding private detective as she shoots and solves her way through her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, and no mystery too t...

  • Cutout

    A young woman from the Midwest, recipient of an unexpected college scholarship, is recruited into a lucrative courier job that shuttles her from Manhattan to Washington, DC. There’s a slight drawback: the previous two “cutouts” ...

  • Nathan Heller

    The “perfect private eye” looks back on his career among Chicago’s famous and infamous in this profile by the Shamus Award"winning author (Daily News, New York).As a ghostwriter settles in for a series of interviews with the semi-retired Nath...

  • Ms. Tree Volume 6: Fallen Tree

    Whether it’s a funeral, dinner party, or cruise ship, a barrage of bullets are either being fired at or by Ms. Tree. With a sharp mind and a steady aim, the detective undertakes cases that are a cocktail of violence, mystery and passion, and ev...

  • Quarry's Return

    The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement when his daughter, a true-crime writer, is abducted by the subject of one of her books. A nail-biting suspense thriller from the author of ROAD TO PERDITION.Someone snatched his ...

  • Ms Tree: Fallen Tree

    The sixth sensational installment in the Hard Case Crime books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition)! Fans of pulp noir and hard-boiled detective crime fiction will love this seminal co...

Award-Winning Books by Max Allan Collins

Stolen Away
1991 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel
True Detective
1983 Shamus Award -- P.I. Novel


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The next book by Max Allan Collins, Ms Tree: Fallen Tree, will be published in January 2025.

The first book by Max Allan Collins, Flower for the Butcher, was published in August 1957.

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