ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier LADY, GO DIE By Max Allan Collins & Mickey Spillane Titan Books 241 pages Available May 2012 After returning home from World War II, veteran Mickey Spillane was prepared to go back to his civilian job of writing comics. But instead, he opted to take an idea for a…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier CHICAGO LIGHTNING By Max Allan Collins Thomas & Mercer 373 pages Sixty three year old Max Collins has been at this writing game for a while coming onto the mystery private-eye scene with his 1994 Shamus Award winning “True Detective,” published the year before. Since that monumental debut, Collins…
Nate Heller is back, and I’m a happy man. For those of you who won’t have a clue to what I’m talking about, let me explain.. Nate Heller is a fictional private eye in a series of historical hardboiled detective novels and short stories written by the redoubtable Max Allan Collins. Some of you will…
ALL PULP REVIEWS-Book Reviews by Ron Fortier THE CONSUMMATA By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Hard Case Crime 247 pages Release date 4 Oct 2011 In 1967 popular mystery writer, Mickey Spillane, sought to cash in the James Bond spy craze sweeping the world of literary fiction. He created a Florida based government agent…
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers presented their 2011 Scribe Awards during Friday’s Comic-Con International Acitivities. The winners announced by co-found Max Allan Collins are: Best General Original Novel: [[[Saving Grace: Tough Love]]] by Nancy Holder Best Speculative Original Novel: [[[Warhammer: Bloodborn: Ulrika the Vampire]]] by Nathan Long Best Adaptation: [[[The Wolfman]]] by Jonathan…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier BYE BYE, BABY By Max Allan CollinsForge Books326 pagesRelease Date 16 Aug. 2011ISBN 10 – 0765321793ISBN 13 – 978-0765321794 Sometimes it’s all too personal. Or so Chicago based private eye, Nathan Heller discovers when he’s asked by his friend, Hollywood sex symbol and superstar Marilyn Monroe to help her…
ALL PULP REVIEWS KISS HER GOODBYE By Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 270 pages Available 25 May 2011 This book, the third Mike Hammer thriller begun by the late Spillane and completed by his protégé Collins, takes place in the mid 1970s. Hammer is in sunny Florida recuperating from several bullet…
Max Allan Collins will be writing a third Quarry novel for Hard Case Crime. On the heels of the recent The First Quarry, Collins will be authoring Quarry in the Middle which the celebrated publisher will release in time for Christmas 2009. Meantime, Tom Sizemore is portraying the character in director Jeffrey Goodman’s adaptation of…
Max Allan Collins revisits the world he crafted for Road to Perdition by signing to write and direct movies based on the prose novel sequels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. Collins will be working with Illinois-based JBM Production Company (Leprechaun) and EMO Films (April Showers). The prolific crime author wrote Road to Perdition…
Quarry, the world’s first hit man to star in his own series of novels, is returning to the racks in October courtesy of Ms. Tree / Road To Perdition / Batman / Dick Tracy writer Max Allan Collins. The "final" Quarry novel, The Last Quarry, was published two years ago by Hard Case Crime to much success…
First, the disclaimer. I’ve known Ms. Tree’s Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty since we were all pups down on the farm, I’ve done some research consulting on Max’s Heller series, and I was the editor of Ms. Tree Quarterly. More to the point, there’s this scene at the end of a story where Tree…
Once upon a time, mystery writer Max Allan Collins (Road To Perdition, CSI, Dick Tracy) teamed up with his pal Terry Beatty to create one of the longest-running independently-owned hardboiled crime comics, Ms. Tree. It enjoyed a long and healthy life, outlasting several of its publishers. In the interest of full disclosure, I should point…
