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Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Mike Hammer's deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.
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Max Allan Collins
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…
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…
Max Allen Collins
b>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…
Sally Doherty
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read…
Max Allan Collins, Barbara Collins
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…
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Ailynn Collins
"From decorative refrigerator magnets to Earth itself, we are surrounded by magnetism. Have you ever wondered how magnets work and why they're attracted to some objects? Here's your chance to…
"From the sun shining on us during the day to fireflies twinkling at night, our world is illuminated by light. Have you ever wondered what light is, how it works…
Max Collins
Despite repeated assurances that flying is safe, hardly a day goes by without a fatal aircraft crash. Many programmes have been published in an attempt to eliminate aircraft accidents but…
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When someone mentions the word "robot", what comes to mind? Many people think of mechanical characters often seen in science fiction films. But look around and you'll notice that our…
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Today most people travel in vehicles powered by fossil fuels. But what will transport look like 30 years from now? Will people ride in cars that drive themselves? Will the…
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)!
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Dr Temperance Brennan, a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institution and writes novels as a sideline, has an uncanny ability to read clues left behind in…
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An explosive novel that uncovers new facts about the deadly conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy
No one can twist through a maze with the intensity and suspense of Max Allan Collins. Clive Cussler, #1 New York Times bestselling author World War II is raging. Newly…
With the Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of…
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. The former…
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…
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…
She’s pretty, she’s perfect, she’s June Cleaver with a cleaver, and you don’t want to deny her-or her precious daughter-anything. Because she only wants what’s best for her little girl…and…
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…
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…
Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1995.
Thirteen stories featuring private eye Nathan Heller, all of which are based on real cases of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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…
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…
This powerful narrative follow-up to Collins’s graphic novel Road to Perdition opens with Michael O'Sullivan returning to Chicago and his old war against the Capone mob. Interwoven is the parallel…
In a small Midwest town, twenty-eight-year-old Krista Larson has made her mark as the youngest female police chief in the country. She’s learned from the best: her father, Keith, a…
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…
Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas - the forensic investigators, as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police…
Michael Satariano thinks hes put his days of killing for the Mob behind him. At middle age, hes made a respectable life for himself and his family and plenty of…
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…
Do No Harm is the next 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…
A gripping forensic investigation starring former homicide detective Horatio Caine and his team, based on the hit television series CSI Miami.
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…
Presents a story of Quarry’s first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful, young students is the least of his sins.
Roscoe Kane is one of the last - and, in Mallory’s opinion, best - of the old-school mystery writers. Back in the day, he turned out crime thrillers filled with…
An original novel based on the critically acclaimed hit CBS series! –Cover.
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…
A brand new mystery in the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition.
Hammer is summoned to a meeting…
Max, her fellow transgenics, and their allies struggle to protect their fledgling colony in Terminal City from the surrounding police siege, but their efforts are undermined by the murders of…
When Max stumbles upon a dark secret that Logan has kept hidden for years, her feelings of betrayal threaten their relationship, but when Logan is kidnapped, Max’s search leads her…
