Max Allan Collins
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Max Allen Collins was born in 1948 in Muscatine, Iowa. He is a two-time winner of the Private Eye Writer's of America's Shamus Award for his Nathaniel Heller historical thrillers "True Detective" and "Stolen Away". Collins also wrote the Dick Tracy comic strip begining in 1977 and ending in the toon meer early 1990s. He has contributed to a number of other comics, including Batman. Collins created his first independent feature film, Mommy, following a nightmarish experience as screenwriter on the cable movie The Expert. Collins has been contracted by DC Comics to write three tie-ins to his critically acclaimed graphic novel "The Road to Perdition", which was adapted into the feature film. Author of other such move tie-in bestsellers as "In the Line of Fire" and "Air Force One", he is also the screenwriter/director of the cult favorite suspense films "Mommie" and "Mommie's Day". (Publisher Provided) Max Allen Collins was born in Muscatine, Iowa on March 3, 1948. His graphic novel Road to Perdition, published in 1998, is the basis of the Academy Award-winning 2002 film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman and Daniel Craig. His other works include Road to Purgatory, Road to Paradise, Return to Perdition, Bye Bye, Baby, and Target Lancer. He won the Shamus awards for True Detective in 1983 and Stolen Away in 1991. He is completing a number of Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane. He has collaborated with his wife Barbara Collins on three novels and numerous short stories. Their Antiques Flee Market won the Romantic Times Best Humorous Mystery Novel award in 2009. His comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy (1977-1993), Ms. Tree, Batman; and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, based on the hit TV series for which he has also written ten novels. He has written tie-in books for several movies including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster, which won the Best Novel Scribe Award in 2008 from the International Association of Tie-in Writers. His non-fiction works include The History of Mystery and Men's Adventure Magazines, which won Anthony Award. He is also an independent filmmaker. He has written and directed five features and two documentaries, including the Lifetime movie Mommy and the sequel, Mommy's Day. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago (2018) 101 exemplaren
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern… (2020) 87 exemplaren
Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2002) — Editor & Contributor — 11 exemplaren
NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers)) (English and Spanish Edition) (1997) 9 exemplaren
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2: The Little Death (2009) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2003) — Editor & Contributor — 6 exemplaren
Mickey Spillane on Screen: A Complete Study of the Television and Film Adaptations (2012) 6 exemplaren
Elvgren Girls I 5 exemplaren
Batman: stierf Robin vannacht? 4 exemplaren
Batman Vol. 1 #410 4 exemplaren
Die Lover, Die! 3 exemplaren
Die Mumie kehrt zurück. Der Roman zum Film. 3 exemplaren
Batman Vol. 1 #411 3 exemplaren
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Shoot The Moon (and more) 3 exemplaren
Elvgren girls 2 exemplaren
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #4 2 exemplaren
Mommy [1995 film] — Director — 2 exemplaren
The Complete Max Collins/Rick Fletcher Dick Tracy #1 2 exemplaren
Quarry's War #1 2 exemplaren
Johnny Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics - The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi's Wild Man of Chicago (2020) 2 exemplaren
The Sound of One Hand Clapping 2 exemplaren
Robber's Roost 2 exemplaren
Batman n. 03 1 exemplaar
Batman n. 02 1 exemplaar
Batman n. 01 1 exemplaar
CSI: Cold Burn / Binding Ties / Killing Game 1 exemplaar
A Long Time Dead [short story] 1 exemplaar
Flowers for Bill O'Reilly: Memorial Day 1 exemplaar
True Crime (Nathan Heller, #2) 1 exemplaar
Fallout {short story} 1 exemplaar
DC Prestige n. 25: Batman: Gli intoccabili 1 exemplaar
Wild Dog #2 1 exemplaar
Guest Services 1 exemplaar
Puzzle of Bones 1 exemplaar
A Matter of Principal 1 exemplaar
The Night Of Their Lives 1 exemplaar
Cutout 1 exemplaar
50th Anniversary Dick Tracy 1 exemplaar
Batman - Os Intocáveis 1 exemplaar
The best of crime and detective tv 1 exemplaar
the dick tracy casebook 1 exemplaar
Hunger 1 exemplaar
X-Files Regeneration (French Edition) 1 exemplaar
Scratch Fever (Nolan 6) 1 exemplaar
Hard Cash (Nolan 5) 1 exemplaar
Hush Money (Nolan 4) 1 exemplaar
Fly Paper (Nolan 3) 1 exemplaar
un linceul pour le verseau 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree Quarterly (Issue #3) 1 exemplaar
Dick Tracy: The Ghost of Itchy 1 exemplaar
Mommy [AB] 1 exemplaar
Collection super noire n° 26. la course au sac. 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree's thrilling detective adventures 1 exemplaar
Max Collins and Terry Beatty's Ms. Tree 3-D 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree quarterly 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree special 1 exemplaar
Mike Mist Minute Mist-Eries 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree 3-D 1 exemplaar
Dick Tracy: The Russian Exchange 1 exemplaar
The Best of the Tribune Company, vol. 2 1 exemplaar
Mickey Spillane's Mike Danger 1 exemplaar
CSI: Serial #1 1 exemplaar
Stakeout on Rush Street Chicago Illinois 1943 1 exemplaar
Sand's War (A Sand Shocker) 1 exemplaar
Ms. Tree Quarterly #1 1 exemplaar
Batman 1/1988 1 exemplaar
ESTRADA PARA PERDICAO - VOL 3 1 exemplaar
Batman 3/1989 1 exemplaar
The Cold Case 1 exemplaar
The Black Mountain 1 exemplaar
To Live and Spy In Berlin (John Sand, #3) 1 exemplaar
Quarry's War Vol. 1 1 exemplaar
A Pebble For Papa 1 exemplaar
CSI: Serial #2 1 exemplaar
CSI: Serial #5 1 exemplaar
I Had Bigfoot's Baby! 1 exemplaar
Chicago Mob Wars 1 exemplaar
The Best of the Tribune Co. #2 1 exemplaar
Thrilling Adventure Strips #6 1 exemplaar
Mike Hammer: King of the Weeds 1 exemplaar
Thrilling Adventure Strips #10 1 exemplaar
CSI: Serial #4 1 exemplaar
CSI: Bad Rap Issue #1 1 exemplaar
CSI: Serial #3 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Culhane, Patrick
Allan, Barbara - Geboortedatum
- 1948-03-03
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Iowa
- Beroepen
- mystery writer
- Organisaties
- The Private Eye Writers of America (past president)
Western Fictioneers - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Herodotus Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Historical Mysteries (2002)
Shamus Award (The Eye for Lifetime Achievement, 2006)
Scribe Award (Grandmaster, Faust Award, 2021) - Agent
- Ross Harris
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A Hit on the Hitman
Review of the Titan Books / Hard Case Crime Kindle eBook edition (November 12, 2019) published simultaneously with the Hard Case Crime paperback and Skyboat Media audiobook.
This is Quarry #15, a late entry in the long-running Quarry series (1976-2022) about an anti-hero hitman. After a betrayal, the anonymous character (Quarry simply being a trademark nickname) turned the tables on the various middleman brokers and the contract hitmen by stalking the stalkers and taking his fees from the planned victims. The prolific novelist and comic book author Max Allan Collins (761 books to his credit on Goodreads! 😲) returns periodically to this protagonist, but usually places the settings back in the late 1900s rather than aging the character up to the present day.
Thus Killing Quarry finds the hitman in retirement and running a motel resort. But suddenly it appears that he himself is being stalked by hired killers possibly in search of payback for his disruptions of the status quo. Eventually he manages to join forces with another character who is perhaps seeking retirement and together they end up infiltrating a summit of contract brokers. Will they manage to breakup the conspiracy and not turn on each other by the end? Never count Quarry out even when the chips appear to be down.
I read Killing Quarry from picking it up as a $1.99 Kindle Deal of the Day and after enjoying some recent books by Scott Von Doviak from Hard Case Crime.
Trivia and Links
Killing Quarry is part of the Hard Case Crime (2004-) series of new works, reprints, and posthumous publications of the pulp and noir crime genre founded by authors Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. GR's Listopia is not complete (as of April 2024) and the most current lists of publication can be found at Wikipedia or the Publisher's own Official Site.… (meer)
Review of the Titan Books / Hard Case Crime Kindle eBook edition (November 12, 2019) published simultaneously with the Hard Case Crime paperback and Skyboat Media audiobook.
She leaned in. “We should’ve stopped this shit ten years ago. We could have, you know. If we’d just disappeared then, who would have cared?”
“But we didn’t.” I shrugged. “Maybe this is a second chance.”
“Maybe. But we’re going to have to kill some people.”
I shrugged again. “I’m okay with that.”
She shrugged. Sipped. “So am I.”
This is Quarry #15, a late entry in the long-running Quarry series (1976-2022) about an anti-hero hitman. After a betrayal, the anonymous character (Quarry simply being a trademark nickname) turned the tables on the various middleman brokers and the contract hitmen by stalking the stalkers and taking his fees from the planned victims. The prolific novelist and comic book author Max Allan Collins (761 books to his credit on Goodreads! 😲) returns periodically to this protagonist, but usually places the settings back in the late 1900s rather than aging the character up to the present day.
Thus Killing Quarry finds the hitman in retirement and running a motel resort. But suddenly it appears that he himself is being stalked by hired killers possibly in search of payback for his disruptions of the status quo. Eventually he manages to join forces with another character who is perhaps seeking retirement and together they end up infiltrating a summit of contract brokers. Will they manage to breakup the conspiracy and not turn on each other by the end? Never count Quarry out even when the chips appear to be down.
I read Killing Quarry from picking it up as a $1.99 Kindle Deal of the Day and after enjoying some recent books by Scott Von Doviak from Hard Case Crime.
Trivia and Links
Killing Quarry is part of the Hard Case Crime (2004-) series of new works, reprints, and posthumous publications of the pulp and noir crime genre founded by authors Charles Ardai and Max Phillips. GR's Listopia is not complete (as of April 2024) and the most current lists of publication can be found at Wikipedia or the Publisher's own Official Site.… (meer)
“Ask not who you can kill for your country…”
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visit…
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean ‘Preston Freed’. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and he’s pissed! And he wants revenge!
A fast read, lots of Quarry being a bad ass, and ultimately, he gets what he seeks! And, there is more than one way to assassinate a person! A good fifth book in this series!… (meer)
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visit…
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean ‘Preston Freed’. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and he’s pissed! And he wants revenge!
A fast read, lots of Quarry being a bad ass, and ultimately, he gets what he seeks! And, there is more than one way to assassinate a person! A good fifth book in this series!… (meer)
I cannot fault this book in any way. It is a very pure and classic example of the hard boiled genre. I read it because I’m looking at the Edgar nominees. Plotting was taut, characters given just enough flesh and blood. Sex and violence dolloped out with aplomb.splashes of humor and pathos raise it above the average
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“Society sanctioned killing strangers in war, but didn’t like it when you took out some bastard you knew who richly deserved it.”
That is Quarry. And this is his 'first' story. "Some first job. Six kills but not the guy I was hired for. Two beautiful women and more sex than I'd had in the last six months. I'd survived..." And it kept my interest and entertained me enough that I read it in one day! Good ending too!
And Sambos restaurant!?! Man, we had one of those racist places in my hometown growing up. I cannot believe they were allowed! WTF?!?… (meer)