My Lolita Complex and other Tales of Sex and Violence

by Max Allan Collins, Matthew V. Clemens

My Lolita Complex is a collection of nine scintillating suspense stories. A British super spy, a sexy vampire slayer, an aging crime boss, and others discover just how many boundaries they're willing to cross in the name of love.and lust. In "A Pebble for Papa," a Mafioso gets a lesson in betrayal and redemption. "A Woman's Touch" features a Civil War femme fatal. "Eastside, Westside" is a sexy re-take on Nick and Nora from The Thin Man. "Stakeout on Rush Street" takes place in the Buffy universe (sans Buffy). Graveyard Shift" teaches a room-service Romeo that women are not the "weaker" sex. In "Sand on the Beach" and "Lie Beside Me," the "real" James Bond fights old foes while traversing the far-more terrifying pitfalls of being a newly-married man. "I Had Bigfoot's Baby!" is a send-up of urban legends and tabloid papers featuring Hellboy. And if Nabokov had written "Double Indemnity, you'd get "My Lolita Complex," the title story.

211 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published November 4, 2006

About the author

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

Reviews

[D. Durst]

Good, but . . .

I love Collins and all his series, but there was no suspense here. The ending was as obvious as a freight train. Still, I enjoyed!