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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Berkley
November 05, 2002
Author Max Allan Collins is adept at transforming raw historical research and tried-and-true mystery novel techniques into an entertaining and thought-provoking adventure in "The Lusitania Murders." I highly enjoyed the character of Wright aka Van Dine and his adventures with the ship's most interesting and famous first class passengers. This is a window into the art, literary and popular culture... more
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| 2. Stolen Away | 
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Signet
February 06, 2001
Mystery novel based on the Lindbergh kidnapping case, populated with real-life characters like Eliot Ness and Al Capone, as well as the Lindberghs.
Charles Lindbergh does not fair well here, with his micro-mismanaging of the investigation, and the New Jersey State Police come in for a fair share of abuse for their incompetence.
Collins assertion is that the kidnapping was... more
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| 3. Strip For Murder (A Jack Starr Mystery) | 
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Berkley Trade
May 06, 2008
The shadow of an elephant hovers over this featherweight whodunit, and by the time the author addresses it (rather defensively) in an afterword, it's far too late to purge the smell. Basing fiction on real and well-known events and people is a time-honored tradition- but it's not an unbridled license to smear. As the author's disclaimer states (after explicitly naming his victims): "Aspects of both... more
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| 4. Snake Eyes (CSI) | 
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Pocket Star
August 29, 2006
Not bad for a quick read if you're a fan of the original CSI show but it was lacking the fun, adventure and wide range of character exploration that makes the show so much fun.
I've bought a few of the CSI books and this seems to be a common problem with all of them.
I equate "tie-in" books like this with fan fiction. Someone takes the characters and situations that someone... more
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| 5. Dick Tracy: The Collins Casefiles, Vol. 1 (Dick Tracy: the Collins Casefiles (Graphic Novels)) | 
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By: Max Allan Collins, Chester Gould, Rick Fletcher
Publisher: Checker Book Publishing Group
October 29, 2003
This book is reprinting the stories from when Max Allan Collins took over the strip in 1978, and this collection contains some strips from 1978-1979 and three stories.
Angeltop's Last Stand, where the children of a couple of Tracy's enemies come back.
The Return of Haf-and-Haf, where the two faced guy gets some plastic surgery.
The longest story is Big Boy's revenge... more
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| 6. Air Force One: A Novel |
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By: Andrew W. Marlowe
Publisher: Ballantine Books
June 29, 1997
If you enjoyed other great books by Collins and havent tried this well written book. Do yourself a favor and grab a copy. I read it before I saw the movie. A greay story from beginning to end... more
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| 7. The Hindenburg Murders |
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Berkley
June 12, 2000
Another historical mystery, where Collins crafts a story of a bomb planted by the German anti-Nazi resistance movement. But that wasn't what caused the fire, however, in Collins' draft of history, but the discovery of the plot by real-life mystery writer Leslie Charteris, who flew on the maiden voyage of the Hindenburg, if not its final one.
Collins does a good job of weaving fact and... more
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| 8. The Titanic Murders |
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Berkley
April 01, 1999
Reading this was akin to drinking a cocktail compounded of cardboard, glue, and tap water. It is lifeless, unimaginative, plodding, predictable, and slow. How anyone could make the Titanic tragedy and a cast of potentially fascinating characters into something this boring is amazing. Futrelle's shortest and slightest "Thinking Machine" story has twice the plot and intelligence of this achingly dull... more
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| 9. Body of Evidence (CSI Crime Scene Investigation) |
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Pocket Star
October 01, 2003
Since I'm such a big fan of the show, I decided to try one of the novelizations. I got caught up in the story easily enough, and even finished the book quickly (a matter of one evening). Reading BODY OF EVIDENCE was a lot like watching an episode of CSI, and yet at the same time there were enough differences to keep it interesting--and, at the same time, irritating.
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| 10. Killing Game (CSI) |
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By: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Pocket Star
October 25, 2005
I have been a fan of CSI for about three years now and got into reading the books by Max Allan Collins in December of last year. The books follow the timeline of the television show but are understandably behind what is happening there. For instance, Killing Game is set in the time when Grissom's team had been broken up by Ecklie and Grissom was still head of the graveyard shift and had Sara, Greg... more
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