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Max Allan Collins
[1948-]

The Eye, Lifetime Achievement Award from Private Eye Writers of America, 2006
 
Nolan, an aging thief in Iowa:

Bait Money (1973)

Blood Money (1973)

Fly Paper (1981)

Hush Money (1981)

Hard Cash (1981)

Scratch Fever (1982)

Spree (1987)

Mourn the Living (1999) [previously unpublished 1st book of series]

Quarry, a psychotic Vietnam vet and hired killer in Iowa:

The Broker (1976)
APA: Quarry (1985)

The Broker’s Wife (1976)
APA: Quarry’s List (1985)

The Dealer (1976)
APA: Quarry’s Deal (1986)

The Slasher (1977)
APA: Quarry’s Cut (1986)

Primary Target (1987)

Quarry's Greatest Hits (2003) [includes three SS and Primary Target]

The Last Quarry (2006) [expansion of SS “A Matter of Principle”]
Finalist 2007 Barry Award for Best Paperback

Nate Heller, a 1930s ex-cop turned private eye, in Chicago, Illinois:

True Detective (1983)

True Crime (1984)

The Million-Dollar Wound (1986)

Neon Mirage (1988)

Dying in the Post-War World (1991) [novella and SS]

Stolen Away (1991)

Carnal Hours (1994)

Blood and Thunder (1995)

Damned in Paradise (1996)

Flying Blind (1998)

Majic Man (1999)

Angel in Black (2001)

Kisses of Death (2001) [SS]

Chicago Confidential (2002)

Mallory, a small-town student mystery writer in Iowa:

No Cure for Death (1983)

The Baby Blue Rip-Off (1983)

Kill Your Darlings (1984)

A Shroud for Aquarius (1985)

Nice Weekend for a Murder (1986)

Eliot Ness, a 1930s public safety officer in Cleveland, Ohio:

The Dark City (1987)

Butcher's Dozen (1988)

Bullet Proof (1989)

Murder by the Numbers (1993)

CSI (TV Tie-in) Crime scene investigators, in either Las Vegas, Nevada, or Miami, Florida:

Double Dealer (2001)

Sin City (2002)

Florida Getaway (2002)

Cold Burn (2003)

Body of Evidence (2003)

Heat Wave (2004)

Grave Matters (2004)

Demon House (2004)

Killing Game (CSI) (2005)

Snake Eyes (2006)

Criminal Minds (TV Tie-in):

Jump Cut (2007)

Killer Profile (2008)

Finishing School (due November 4, 2008)

Maggie Starr, America’s most famous ex-striptease artist, running her late husband’s newspaper syndicate, and her stepson Jack, her VP and chief troubleshooter, in 1948 Manhattan, New York City:

A Killing in Comics (2007)

Strip for Murder (2008)

Non-series:

Air Force One1 (1997)

The Titanic Murders (1999)

The Mummy1 (1999)

U-571 (2000)

The Hindenburg Murders (2000)

The Pearl Harbor Murders (2001)

Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides (2001)

The Mummy Returns1 (2001)

Road to Perdition (2002)

The Lusitania Murders (2002)

For the Boys (2003)

The London Blitz Murders (2004)

Road to Perdition: On the Road (2004)

The War of the Worlds Murder (2005)
Finalist 2006 Macavity Award for Best Historical Novel

My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence (2006) [SS] [with Matthew V. Clemens]

Deadly Beloved (2007)

American Gangster1 (2007)

Dead Street (2007) [with Mickey Spillane]

The Goliath Bone (due October 13, 2008) [with Mickey Spillane]

 

Non-series books written with wife Barbara Collins

Written as Barbara Allan
(joint pseudonym of Barbara and Max Allan Collins)
Brandy Borne, recently divorced, now back in her hometown in Iowa, with Sushi, her blind Shih Tzu, in the Trash ’n’ Treasures mysteries

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