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Max Allan Collins

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Born

in Muscatine, Iowa, The United States

Website

http://www.maxallancollins.com/

Genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels

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February 2013

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Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 2006.

He has also published under the name Patrick Culhane. He and his wife, Barbara Collins, have written several books together. Some of them are published under the name Barbara Allan.

Book Awards
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1984) : True Detective
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : Stolen Away
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : Carnal Hours
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Damned in Paradise
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : Flying Blind: A Novel about Amelia Earhart
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Angel in Black

Japanese: マックス・アラン・コリンズ
or マックス・アランコリンズ ...more

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Dashiell Hammett and the Short, Guttural Verb

I caution the easily offended – and even those who are understandably offended – but what I have to say in today’s update will frequently contain a certain word that likely originated from Germanic or Old Norse languages (e.g., ficken, fokken), meaning “to strike,” “thrust,” or “move back and forth.” It has for centuries been a forbidden, rude word. And it’s going to appear throughout this little

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Average rating: 3.87 · 119,787 ratings · 11,772 reviews · 820 distinct works • Similar authors

	Supreme Justice (Reeder and Rogers, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 9,363 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Executive Order (Reeder and Rogers, #3) by Max Allan Collins (Goodreads Author), Matthew V. Clemens 4.24 avg rating — 4,439 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fate of the Union (Reeder and Rogers, #2) by Max Allan Collins (Goodreads Author), Matthew V. Clemens 4.26 avg rating — 3,776 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Road to Perdition (Road to Perdition, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 3,007 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girl Most Likely (Krista Larson, #1) 3.60 avg rating — 3,211 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mummy (The Mummy, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 2,642 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Detective (Nathan Heller, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,127 ratings — published 1983 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Doesn't Kill Her 4.01 avg rating — 1,983 ratings — published 2013 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Quarry (Quarry #1) 3.78 avg rating — 2,056 ratings — published 1976 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bones Buried Deep (Bones, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 1,969 ratings — published 2006 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Max Allan Collins wrote a new blog post Dashiell Hammett and the Short, Guttural Verb I caution the easily offended – and even those who are understandably offended – but what I have to say in today’s update will frequently contain a ce Read more of this blog post »
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“Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I... am a librarian.

The Mummy (1999)”
― Max Allan Collins, The Mummy

tags: librarian

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“Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.”
― Max Allan Collins, Jump Cut

tags: help, humans

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“Evelyn: [drunk] You're wondering, 'What is a place like me doing in a girl like this?'
Rick: Yeah, something like that.”
― Max Allan Collins, The Mummy

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