The Hard Word: "...IT WAS NECESSARY TO GET INTO HAMMETT'S APPROACH": THE RETURN OF THE MALTESE FALCON'S MAX ALLAN COLLINS

 The Hard Word: "...IT WAS NECESSARY TO GET INTO HAMMETT'S APPROACH": THE RETURN OF THE MALTESE FALCON'S MAX ALLAN COLLINS

The Rap Sheet: Spade Goes Back to Bird Hunting

 The Rap Sheet:  Spade Goes Back to Bird Hunting

The Hard Word: THE BLACK BIRD IS BACK: MAX ALLAN COLLINS' RETURN OF THE MALTESE FALCON

 The Hard Word: THE BLACK BIRD IS BACK: MAX ALLAN COLLINS' RETURN OF THE MALTESE FALCON

The Rap Sheet: That Darn Bird Again, With Bonuses

 The Rap Sheet: That Darn Bird Again, With Bonuses

Dark City Underground: Booked (and Printed): August 2025

 Dark City Underground: Booked (and Printed): August 2025

The Rap Sheet: Tip-offs and Trifles

 The Rap Sheet:  Tip-offs and Trifles

The Rap Sheet: That’s One Hard-boiled “Carol”

 The Rap Sheet: That’s One Hard-boiled “Carol”

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Deadly Anniversaries

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: Deadly Anniversaries:   Three years ago I purchased Deadly Anniversaries , edited by Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller, so that I could read "Chin Yong-Yun Set...

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: MURDERLIZED

Jerry's House of Everything: SHORT STORY WEDNESDAY: MURDERLIZED: "Murderlised" by Max Allan Collins & Mathew V. Clemens  (first published in Hollywood and Crime:  Original Crime Stories Set i...

Jerry's House of Everything: NOT FORGOTTEN: A MAX ALLAN COLLINS TWO-FER

Jerry's House of Everything: NOT FORGOTTEN: A MAX ALLAN COLLINS TWO-FER: Dig Two Graves by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, 2023 Too Many Bullets  by Max Allan Collins, 2023 Normally, this is the space where...

George Kelly: WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #120: KISSES OF DEATH: A NATHAN HELLER CASEBOOK By Max Allan Collins

 George Kelly: WEDNESDAY’S SHORT STORIES #120: KISSES OF DEATH: A NATHAN HELLER CASEBOOK By Max Allan Collins

The Hard Word: A REVIEW OF MAX ALLAN COLLINS AND JAMES L. TRAYLOR'S MICKEY SPILLANE: KING OF PULP FICTION

 The Hard Word: A REVIEW OF MAX ALLAN COLLINS AND JAMES L. TRAYLOR'S MICKEY SPILLANE: KING OF PULP FICTION

Gravetapping: GIRL MOST LIKELY by Max Allan Collins

Gravetapping: GIRL MOST LIKELY by Max Allan Collins: Girl Most Likely is the first in a two-book series from Max Allan Collins, featuring chief of police Krista Larson. Krista’s patch is G...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: True Detective: Max Allan Collins

Bitter Tea and Mystery: True Detective: Max Allan Collins: True Detective is a historical mystery, with a private detective as the protagonist. Likable, not damaged, but not perfect either. And set ...

Gravetapping: KILLING TOWN by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collin...

Gravetapping: KILLING TOWN by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collin...: Killing Town is the tenth Mike Hammer novel started by Mickey Spillane and completed by Max Allan Collins. In Collins’ Introduction, “M...

Gravetapping: QUARRY'S CLIMAX by Max Allan Collins

Gravetapping: QUARRY'S CLIMAX by Max Allan Collins: Quarry’s Climax , the fourteenth title in Max Allan Collins’ revitalized Quarry series, is set in the Highland Strip area of Memphis in ...

Gravetapping: FATE OF THE UNION by Max Allan Collins with Matthe...

Gravetapping: FATE OF THE UNION by Max Allan Collins with Matthe...: Fate of the Union  is the second novel—after  Supreme Justice  (2014)—featuring former Secret Service Agent Joe Reeder and current FBI Age...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Will To Kill -- Mickey Spillane and Max Allan ...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: The Will To Kill -- Mickey Spillane and Max Allan ...: In his intro to this posthumous collaboration with Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins explains that the more substantial Spillane manuscript...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Quarry in the Black -- Max Allan Collins

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Quarry in the Black -- Max Allan Collins: The latest Quarry novel from Max Allan Collins is set in 1972 at election time. It's McGovern vs. Nixon, and there's some wonderful ...

Catching up with Max Allan Collins (Ed Gorman's Blog)

 Catching up with Max Allan Collins (Ed Gorman's Blog)