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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
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.
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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…
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…
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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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…
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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…
Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1995.
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Thirteen stories featuring private eye Nathan Heller, all of which are based on real cases of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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…
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…
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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…
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…
A gripping forensic investigation starring former homicide detective Horatio Caine and his team, based on the hit television series CSI Miami.
Vietnam vet Mallory has been everywhere and done everything-from hippie life toconstruction work, from covering a reporter’s beat to walking a cop’s-before finallyreturning to small-town Iowa to try…
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.
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…
Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: Prohibition-era Chicago. When he won’t sell out, he’s forced to quit the force…
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…
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…
Originally published: New York: New American Library, 2002.
Chicago P.I. Nate Heller returns home from duty in Guadalcanal a decorated, damaged, and dangerous hero - and drops directly from one war into another: the gangland coup to topple…
Written by the author of the Nathan Heller crime novels, True Detective (winner of the PWA’s Shamus Award), True Crime and The Million-Dollar Wound . In this novel, set in…
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…
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…
Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land – rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers…
Based on the Emmy Award-winning TV series, this edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the savvy and remarkable team of forensic investigators led by veteran Gil Grissom as they use the latest cutting-edge…
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…
When two Godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts. This title presents a tale of warring crime families.
Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating. He’d killed…
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…
Los Angeles. The City of Angels. The perfect place for a honeymoon…and the worst possible time for a murder.
Vacationing private investigator Nate Heller finds himself a suspect in the…
An explosive novel that uncovers new facts about the deadly conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy
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…
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…
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…
Called to an out-of-control scene outside Las Vegas, at a casino in Boot Hill where violence between to rival biker gangs has resulted in two fatalities, Grissom and his CSI…
Quarry doesn’t kill just anybody these days. He restricts himself to targeting other hitmen, availing his clients of two services: eliminating the assassins, and finding out who hired them… and…
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…
