Max Allan Collins
Author of Road to Perdition
About the Author
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 show more 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) show less
Series
Works by Max Allan Collins
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern… (2020) 87 copies
Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2002) — Editor & Contributor — 11 copies
NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning (Penguin Readers (Graded Readers)) (English and Spanish Edition) (1997) 9 copies
The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2: The Little Death (2009) — Author — 7 copies
Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin: Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (2003) — Editor & Contributor — 6 copies
Elvgren Girls I 5 copies
Batman Vol. 1 #410 4 copies
Batman Vol. 1 #408 4 copies
Shoot The Moon (and more) 3 copies
Die Lover, Die! 3 copies
Batman Vol. 1 #411 3 copies
Batman Vol. 1 #409 3 copies
Mommy [1995 film] — Director — 2 copies
Elvgren girls 2 copies
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #4 2 copies
The Sound of One Hand Clapping 2 copies
Robber's Roost 2 copies
Quarry's War #1 2 copies
Johnny Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics - The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi's Wild Man of Chicago (2020) 2 copies
Scratch Fever (Nolan 6) 1 copy
Cutout 1 copy
Wild Dog #2 1 copy
The Night Of Their Lives 1 copy
50th Anniversary Dick Tracy 1 copy
Hunger 1 copy
Quarry's War Vol. 1 1 copy
the dick tracy casebook 1 copy
A Pebble For Papa 1 copy
Ms. Tree 3-D 1 copy
Hard Cash (Nolan 5) 1 copy
un linceul pour le verseau 1 copy
Hush Money (Nolan 4) 1 copy
Batman n. 02 1 copy
Batman n. 03 1 copy
Fallout {short story} 1 copy
Mommy [AB] 1 copy
Guest Services 1 copy
Batman - Os IntocƔveis 1 copy
Batman n. 01 1 copy
Fly Paper (Nolan 3) 1 copy
Puzzle of Bones 1 copy
Mike Mist Minute Mist-Eries 1 copy
A Matter of Principal 1 copy
CSI: Serial #3 1 copy
CSI: Serial #2 1 copy
CSI: Serial #4 1 copy
CSI: Serial #5 1 copy
CSI: Serial #1 1 copy
Sand's War (A Sand Shocker) 1 copy
Ms. Tree quarterly 1 copy
Ms. Tree special 1 copy
I Had Bigfoot's Baby! 1 copy
Chicago Mob Wars 1 copy
CSI: Bad Rap Issue #1 1 copy
Batman 1/1988 1 copy
Batman 3/1989 1 copy
The Cold Case 1 copy
The Black Mountain 1 copy
Ms. Tree Quarterly #1 1 copy
Associated Works
Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels (2012) 248 copies
Bibliomysteries: Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores (2017) — Contributor — 193 copies
The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Dailies & Sundays, Volume 01: 1931-1933 (2006) — Introduction, some editions — 92 copies
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year (2010) — Contributor — 85 copies
In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero (2012) — Contributor — 76 copies
Writing the Private Eye Novel: A Handbook by the Private Eye Writers of America (1997) — Contributor — 58 copies
Chicago Blues: A Collection of Crime Stories about the Real Windy City (2007) — Contributor, some editions — 55 copies
Deadly Allies: Private Eye Writers of America/Sisters in Crime Collaborative Anthology (1992) — Contributor — 43 copies
At the Scene of the Crime: Forensic Mysteries from Today's Best Writers (2008) — Contributor — 34 copies
Greatest Hits: Original Stories of Hitmen, Hired Guns, and Private Eyes (2005) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Eyes Have It: The First Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1984) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: First Annual Edition (1992) — Contributor — 16 copies
Justice for Hire: The Fourth Private Eye Writers of America Anthology (1990) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Second Annual Edition (1993) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Fifth Annual Edition (1996) — Contributor — 7 copies
Pop the Clutch: Thrilling Tales of Rockabilly, Monsters, and Hot Rod Horror (2019) — Contributor — 5 copies
Encore for Murder (The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 3) (2011) — Author, some editions — 5 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Culhane, Patrick
Allan, Barbara - Birthdate
- 1948-03-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Places of residence
- Muscatine, Iowa, USA
- Education
- University of Iowa
- Occupations
- mystery writer
- Organizations
- The Private Eye Writers of America (past president)
Western Fictioneers - Awards and honors
- 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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Reviews
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! š²) 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.… (more)
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. āWe shouldāve stopped this shit ten years ago. We could have, you know. If weād just disappeared then, who would have cared?ā
āBut we didnāt.ā I shrugged. āMaybe this is a second chance.ā
āMaybe. But weāre going to have to kill some people.ā
I shrugged again. āIām okay with that.ā
She shrugged. Sipped. āSo am I.ā
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! š²) 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.… (more)
āAsk not who you can kill for your countryā¦ā
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visitā¦
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean āPreston Freedā. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and heās 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!… (more)
Quarry gets married again! And his wife is expecting!
And then, his past pays him a visitā¦
Someone wants to hire Quarry to assassinate Donald Trump, I mean āPreston Freedā. When he says no, bad things happen. But Quarry is badder, and heās 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!… (more)
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 Iām 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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āSociety sanctioned killing strangers in war, but didnāt like it when you took out some bastard you knew who richly deserved it.ā
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?!?… (more)