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Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is a highly prolific and accomplished American author, best known for his contributions to the mystery genre. He was born on March 1948 and has made a significant impact in the world of arts and entertainment through his writing. Collins has written numerous novels, short stories, movie novelizations, screenplays, graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, and more, showcasing his versatility and talent in storytelling.

Collins has received considerable recognition for his work. In 2006, he was awarded the Shamus Award's "The Eye," a lifetime achievement award, attesting to his significant contributions to the mystery genre. Apart from writing under his real name, he has also published works under the pseudonyms Patrick Culhane and Barbara Allan, the latter of which he co-writes with his wife, Barbara Collins. Collins and his wife have also collaborated on several books together.

Max Allan Collins is not only an award-winning author of original mysteries, but he also has experience in writing movie adaptations and tie-in novels. His graphic novel, ROAD TO PERDITION, was made into a major motion picture by Tom Hanks's production company, Playtone, demonstrating his ability to create captivating stories that resonate with a wide audience. Collins's work has been recognized in various awards, including the Shamus Awards Best Novel winner in 1984 for True Detective and 1992 for Stolen Away, as well as nominations in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2002. His writing skills have also been acknowledged in Japan, where he is known as マックス・アラン・コリンズ or マックス・アラン コリンズ.
Bones Books (with Kathy Reichs)
# Title Year
1 Buried Deep 2006
Caleb York Books (with Mickey Spillane)
# Title Year
1 The Legend of Caleb York 2015
2 The Big Showdown 2016
3 The Bloody Spur 2018
4 Last Stage to Hell Junction 2019
5 Hot Lead, Cold Justice 2020
6 Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek 2021
Criminal Minds Books
# Title Year
1 Jump Cut 2007
2 Killer Profile 2008
3 Finishing School 2008
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Books
# Title Year
1 Double Dealer 2002
2 Sin City 2002
3 Bad Rap 2002
4 Cold Burn 2003
5 Thicker Than Blood 2003
6 Body of Evidence 2003
7 Grave Matters 2004
8 Binding Ties 2005
9 Killing Game 2005
10 Snake Eyes 2006
11 Case Files Volume 1 2006
12 Brass in Pocket 2008
13 Nevada Rose 2008
14 The Killing Jar 2009
15 Blood Quantum 2010
16 Headhunter 2010
17 Dark Sundays 2010
18 Skin Deep 2010
19 Shock Treatment 2010
20 The Burning Season 2011
CSI: Miami Books
# Title Year
1 Florida Getaway 2003
2 Heat Wave 2004
3 Cult Following 2005
4 Riptide 2006
5 Misgivings 2006
6 Heart Attack 2007
7 Cut and Run 2008
8 Right to Die 2008
Dark Angel Books
# Title Year
1 Before the Dawn 2002
2 Skin Game 2003
3 After the Dark 2003
Dick Tracy Books
# Title Year
1 Dick Tracy and the Nightmare Machine 1991
2 Dick Tracy Goes to War 1991
3 Dick Tracy Meets His Match 1992
Disaster Books
# Title Year
1 The Titanic Murders 1999
2 The Hindenburg Murders 2000
3 The Pearl Harbor Murders 2001
4 The Lusitania Murders 2002
5 The London Blitz Murders 2004
6 The War of the Worlds Murder 2005
Eliot Ness Books
# Title Year
1 The Dark City 1987
2 Butcher's Dozen 1988
3 Bullet Proof 1989
4 Murder by the Numbers 1993
Fangoria Dreadtime Stories Books
# Title Year
1 A Good Head on His Shoulders 1993
2 Reincarnal 1994
3 Wolf 1995
4 Mercy 2018
Frank Nolan Books
# Title Year
1 Bait Money 1973
2 Blood Money 1973
3 Fly Paper 1981
4 Hush Money 1981
5 Hard Cash 1981
6 Scratch Fever 1982
7 Spree 1987
8 Mourn the Living 1988
9 Tough Tender 1991
10 Skim Deep 2020
11 Double Down 2021
G.I. Joe Books
# Title Year
1 Above & Beyond 2009
2 The Rise of Cobra 2009
Jackie & Maggie Starr Books (with Terry Beatty)
# Title Year
1 A Killing in Comics 2007
2 Strip for Murder 2008
3 Seduction of the Innocent 2013
John Sand Books (with Matthew V. Clemens)
# Title Year
1 Come Spy With Me 2020
2 Live Fast, Spy Hard 2021
3 To Live and Spy In Berlin 2021
Krista Larson Books
# Title Year
1 Girl Most Likely 2019
2 Girl Can't Help It 2020
Mallory Books
# Title Year
1 The Baby Blue Rip-Off 1983
2 No Cure for Death 1983
3 Kill Your Darlings 1984
4 A Shroud for Aquarius 1985
5 Nice Weekend for a Murder 1986
Mike Hammer Books (with Mickey Spillane)
# Title Year
1 I, the Jury 1947
2 My Gun Is Quick 1950
3 Vengeance is Mine 1950
4 One Lonely Night 1951
5 The Big Kill 1951
6 Kiss Me, Deadly 1952
7 The Girl Hunters 1962
8 The Snake 1964
9 The Twisted Thing 1966
10 The Body Lovers 1967
11 Survival... Zero 1970
12 The Killing Man 1989
13 Black Alley 1996
14 The Goliath Bone 2008
15 Kiss Her Goodbye 2009
16 The Big Bang 2010
17 Lady, Go Die! 2012
18 Skin 2012
19 Complex 90 2013
20 King of the Weeds 2014
21 Kill Me, Darling 2015
22 Murder Never Knocks 2016
23 A Long Time Dead 2016
24 The Will to Kill 2017
25 Killing Town 2018
26 Murder, My Love 2019
27 Masquerade for Murder 2020
28 Kill Me If You Can 2022
29 Dig Two Graves 2023
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Graphic Novels (with Mickey Spillane)
# Title Year
1 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1 2018
2 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #2 2018
Mike Hammer Audio Books
# Title Year
1 The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer 2008
2 The Little Death 2009
3 Encore for Murder 2011
Mommy Books
# Title Year
1 Mommy 1997
2 Mommy's Day 1998
Ms. Tree Books
# Title Year
1 One Mean Mother 2019
2 Skeleton in the Closet 2020
3 The Cold Dish 2021
4 Deadline 2022
Mummy Books
# Title Year
1 The Mummy 1999
2 The Mummy Returns 2001
3 The Scorpion King 2002
4 Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 2008
Nathan Heller Books
# Title Year
1 True Detective 1983
2 True Crime 1984
3 The Million-Dollar Wound 1986
4 Neon Mirage 1988
5 Stolen Away 1991
6 Carnal Hours 1994
7 Blood and Thunder 1995
8 Damned in Paradise 1996
9 Flying Blind 1998
10 Majic Man 1999
11 Angel in Black 2001
12 Chicago Confidential 2002
13 Bye Bye, Baby 2011
14 Target Lancer 2012
15 Ask Not 2013
16 Better Dead 2016
17 Do No Harm 2020
18 The Big Bundle 2023
19 Too Many Bullets 2023
Nathan Heller Collections
# Title Year
1 Dying in the Post-War World 1991
2 Kisses of Death 2001
3 Chicago Lightning 2011
4 Triple Play 2012
NYPD Blue Books (by with)
# Title Year
1 Blue Beginning 1995
2 Blue Blood 1997
Quarry Books
# Title Year
1 Quarry / The Broker 1976
2 Quarry's List / The Broker's Wife 1976
3 Quarry's Deal / The Dealer 1976
4 Quarry's Cut / The Slasher 1977
5 Quarry's Vote / Primary Target 1988
6 The Last Quarry 2006
7 The First Quarry 2008
8 Quarry in the Middle 2009
9 Quarry's Ex 2011
10 The Wrong Quarry 2014
11 Quarry's Choice 2015
12 Quarry in the Black 2016
13 Quarry's Climax 2017
14 Killing Quarry 2019
15 Quarry's Blood 2021
Quarry Collections
# Title Year
1 Quarry's Greatest Hits 2003
Reeder & Rogers Books (with Matthew V. Clemens)
# Title Year
1 Supreme Justice 2014
2 Fate of the Union 2015
3 Executive Order 2017
You Can't Stop Me Books (with Matthew Clemens)
# Title Year
1 You Can't Stop Me 2010
2 No One Will Hear You 2011
The X-Files Books
# Title Year
1 Goblins 1994
2 Ground Zero 1995
3 Whirlwind 1995
4 Ruins 1995
5 Hunter 1995
6 Antibodies 1997
7 Skin 1998
8 Fight the Future 1998
9 I Want to Believe 2008
10 Trust No One 2015
11 The Truth Is Out There 2016
12 Perihelion 2024
Dick Tracy: The Collins Case Files Books (with Rick Fletcher)
# Title Year
1 Volume 1 2003
2 Volume 2 2004
3 Volume 3 2005
Fancy Anders Books
# Title Year
1 Fancy Anders Goes To War: Who Killed Rosie The Riveter? 2021
Road to Perdition Books
# Title Year
1 Road to Perdition 1998
2 On the Road to Perdition — Oasis, Sanctuary, and Detour — 2003
3 Road to Purgatory 2004
4 Return to Perdition 2011
Artist Archives Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Elvgren Girls I 1999
2 Elvgren Girls II 1999
3 Swimsuit Sweeties 1999
4 Varga Girls I 1999
5 Varga Girls II 1999
6 Exotic Ladies 1999
7 Pirate & Gypsy Girls 2001
8 Pin-Up Nudes 2001
9 Seaside Sweethearts 2001
10 Indian Maidens 2001
11 Patriotic Pin Ups 2002
12 Cowgirl Pin-Ups 2002
13 Pin-Up Nudes II 2002
14 Playful Pin-Ups 2002
Bibliomysteries Books
# Title Year
1 The Book of Virtue 2012
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich 2012
3 The Book Thing 2012
4 The Book Case 2012
5 An Acceptable Sacrifice 2012
6 Death Leaves a Bookmark 2012
7 The Final Testament 2013
8 Rides a Stranger 2013
9 The Long Sonata of the Dead 2013
10 The Book of Ghosts 2013
11 The Compendium of Srem 2014
12 What's in a Name? 2014
13 Remaindered 2014
14 The Sequel 2014
15 The Gospel of Sheba 2014
16 Book Club 2014
17 The Nature of My Inheritance 2014
18 It's in the Book 2014
19 The Scroll 2014
20 The Book of the Lion 2015
21 The Little Men 2015
22 Condor in the Stacks 2015
23 Mystery, Inc. 2015
24 Every Seven Years 2015
25 From the Queen 2015
26 The Travelling Companion 2016
27 Citadel 2016
28 Reconciliation Day 2016
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing 2016
30 The Haze 2016
31 Hoodoo Harry 2017
32 The Pretty Little Box 2018
33 Seven Years 2018
34 The Hemingway Valise 2018
35 The Last Honest Horse Thief 2018
36 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository 2018
37 The Girl Who Did Say No 2020
38 The Traitor 2022
39 The Dark Door 2022
40 The Honeymoon Trap 2022
Bibliomysteries Series in Chronological Order
# Title Year
1 The Book of Virtue 2012
2 The Scroll 2014
3 Pronghorns of the Third Reich 2012
4 An Acceptable Sacrifice 2012
5 Death Leaves a Bookmark 2012
6 Seven Years 2018
7 The Book Thing 2012
8 The Book of Ghosts 2013
9 Book Club 2014
10 The Long Sonata of the Dead 2013
11 The Final Testament 2013
12 Rides a Stranger 2013
13 What's in a Name? 2014
14 It's in the Book 2014
15 The Nature of My Inheritance 2014
16 Remaindered 2014
17 The Compendium of Srem 2014
18 The Gospel of Sheba 2014
19 The Sequel 2014
20 The Book of the Lion 2015
21 The Little Men 2015
22 Every Seven Years 2015
23 Citadel 2016
24 Condor in the Stacks 2015
25 Mystery, Inc. 2015
26 The Travelling Companion 2016
27 The Haze 2016
28 Dead Dames Don't Sing 2016
29 Reconciliation Day 2016
30 Hoodoo Harry 2017
31 The Pretty Little Box 2018
32 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository 2018
33 The Hemingway Valise 2018
34 The Last Honest Horse Thief 2018
35 The Book Case 2012
36 From the Queen 2015
37 The Girl Who Did Say No 2020
38 The Traitor 2022
39 The Dark Door 2022
40 The Honeymoon Trap 2022
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Books
# Title Year
1 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992
2 Halloween Rain 1997
3 The Angel Chronicles, Vol. 2 1998
4 Night of the Living Rerun 1998
5 Blooded 1998
6 Child of the Hunt 1998
7 Return to Chaos 1998
8 Visitors 1999
9 The Monster Book 1999
10 Immortal 1999
11 Sins of the Father 1999
12 Unnatural Selection 1999
13 Resurrecting Ravana 1999
14 The Sunnydale High Yearbook 1999
15 The Willow Files, Vol. 1 1999
16 Deep Water 2000
17 The Harvest 2000
18 The Evil That Men Do 2000
19 How I Survived My Summer Vacation 2000
20 Spike and Dru: Pretty Maids All in a Row 2000
21 The Willow Files, Vol. 2 2001
22 Revenant 2001
23 Tempted Champions 2001
24 The Book of Fours 2001
25 Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Watcher's Guides 2001
26 Paleo 2002
27 Ghoul Trouble 2002
28 Oz: Into the Wild 2002
29 Crossings 2002
30 The Wisdom of War 2002
31 Little Things 2002
32 These Our Actors 2002
33 Chosen 2003
34 Blood and Fog 2003
35 Chaos Bleeds 2003
36 Queen of the Slayers 2005
37 Blackout 2005
38 Carnival of Souls 2006
39 The Deathless 2007
40 Dark Congress 2007
41 One Thing or Your Mother 2008
42 Demons of the Hellmouth: A Guide for Slayers 2015
43 Ghost Roads 2017
44 Out of the Madhouse 2017
Deadly Allies Books
# Title Year
1 Deadly Allies 1992
2 Deadly Allies II 1994
Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery Books (as Barbara Allan)
# Title Year
1 Antiques Roadkill 2006
2 Antiques Maul 2007
3 Antiques Flee Market 2008
4 Antiques Bizarre 2010
5 Antiques Knock-Off 2011
6 Antiques Disposal 2012
7 Antiques Chop 2013
8 Antiques Slay Ride 2013
9 Antiques Con 2014
10 Antiques Fruitcake 2014
11 Antiques Swap 2015
12 Antiques St. Nicked 2015
13 Antiques Fate 2016
14 Antiques Frame 2018
15 Antiques Wanted 2018
16 Antiques Ho-Ho-Homicides 2018
17 Antiques Ravin' 2019
18 Antiques Fire Sale 2020
19 Antiques Carry on 2021
20 Antiques Liquidation 2022
21 Antiques Foe 2023
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 Midnight Haul 1986
2 In the Line of Fire 1993
3 Maverick 1994
4 Waterworld 1995
5 Daylight 1996
6 Air Force One 1997
7 American Gangster 1997
8 U.S. Marshals 1998
9 Regeneration 1999
10 U-571 2000
11 Windtalkers 2001
12 The History of Mystery 2001
13 I Spy 2002
14 Bombshell 2004
15 The Pink Panther 2005
16 Black Hats 2007
17 Deadly Beloved 2007
18 Red Sky in Morning 2008
19 The Consummata 2011
20 Flower for the Butcher 2012
21 Saving Private Ryan 2012
22 What Doesn't Kill Her 2013
23 USS Powderkeg 2018
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Scrap 1987
2 Dying in the Post-War World 1991
3 The Blonde Tigress 2008
4 So Long, Chief 2013
5 A Dangerous Cat 2017
Short Story Collections
# Title Year
1 Blue Christmas and Other Holiday Homicides 2001
2 Early Crimes 2013
3 Murderlized 2020
4 Murder—His & Hers 2020
5 Shoot The Moon 2021
6 Reincarnal & Other Dark Tales 2021
7 Suspense—His & Hers: Tales of Love and Murder 2021
Graphic Novels
# Title Year
1 Road to Perdition 2: On the Road 2003
2 Quarry's War 2018
3 Deadly Beloved and Other Stories 2022
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 The Mystery Scene Movie Guide 1984
2 The Critics' Choice 1988
3 Gil Elvgren: The Wartime Pin-Ups 1996
4 Earl MacPherson: The Sketchbook Pin-Ups 1997
5 Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan 1998
6 Pin-Up Poster Book: The Billy DeVorss Collection 1998
7 For the Boys: The Racy Pin-Ups of World War II 2000
8 Calendar Girl 2003
9 Mickey Spillane on Screen 2012
10 Scarface and the Untouchable 2018
11 Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher 2020
12 Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction 2023
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Tales of the Slayer Books
# Title Year
1 Tales of the Slayer 2001
2 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2 2002
3 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 3 2003
4 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4 2004
Max Allan Collins Anthologies
# Title Year
1 Mean Streets 1986
2 An Eye for Justice 1988
3 Dick Tracy: The Secret Files 1990
4 Dante's Disciples 1991
5 Deadly Allies 1992
6 Dark Crimes 2 1993
7 Deadly After Dark 1994
8 Deadly Allies II 1994
9 Murder is My Business 1994
10 Vampire Detectives 1995
11 First Cases, Volume 1 1996
12 Kiss and Kill 1997
13 Vengeance is Hers 1997
14 Hot Blood X 1998
15 Private Eyes 1998
16 Diagnosis Dead 1999
17 Crafty Cat Crimes 2000
18 The Shamus Game 2000
19 ...And the Dying is Easy 2001
20 Mystery Street 2001
21 Tales of the Slayer 2001
22 A Century of Noir 2002
23 The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3 2002
24 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 2 2002
25 Fatal Attractions 2003
26 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 3 2003
27 Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4 2004
28 Greatest Hits 2005
29 Kolchak: The Night Stalker Chronicles 2005
30 These Guns for Hire 2006
31 My Lolita Complex and Other Tales of Sex and Violence 2006
32 At the Scene of the Crime 2008
33 Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense 2009
34 By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year 2010
35 Crimes by Moonlight 2010
36 The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 2011
37 In Pursuit of Spenser 2012
38 Writing Crime Fiction 2012
39 The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction 2012
40 Inherit the Dead 2013
41 Ghouls, Ghosts, and Ninja Rats 2013
42 The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs 2013
43 Chicago Blues 2014
44 Trust No One 2015
45 The Truth Is Out There 2016
46 Silent Night, Deadly Night 2016
47 Turning the Tied 2021