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True Detective
MAX ALLAN COLLINS has earned an unprecedented seven Private Eye Writers of America 'Shamus' nominations for his 'Nathan Heller' historical thrillers, winning twice (True Detective, 1983, and Stolen Away, 1991). Termed 'mystery's Renaissance Man' (by Ed Hoch in The Best Mystery and Suspense Stories of 1993), Collins has created three celebrated contemporary suspense series: Nolan. Quarry and Mallory (thief, hitman, and mystery writer respectively). He has also written four widely praised historical thrillers about real-life 'Untouchable' Eliot Ness, and is an accomplished writer of short fiction: 'Louise,' his contribution to the popular anthology Deadly Allies, was a Mystery Writers of America 'Edgar' nominee for best short story of 1992. He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip Dick Tracy from 1977 to 1993, and wrote three Tracy novels. Working as an independent filmmaker in his native Iowa, he wrote, directed and executive-produced Mommy, a suspense film starring Patty- McCormack, which aired on Lifetime cable in 1996; he performed the same duties for a sequel, Mommy's Day, released in 1997. The recipient of two Iowa Motion Picture Awards for screenwriting, he wrote The Expert, a 1995 HBO World Premiere film starring James Brolin. A longtime rock musician, he has in recent years recorded and performed with two bands: Seduction of the Innocent in California, and Crusin in his native Muscatine, Iowa, where Collins lives with his wife, writer Barbara Collins, and their son, Nathan.
MYSTERIES
Published by ibooks, inc.:
NATHAN HELLER MYSTERIES
by Max Allan Collins
True Detective
True Crime (coming June 2003)
The Million-Dollar Wound
(coming August 2003)
AMOS WALKER MYSTERIES
by Loren D. Estleman
Motor City Blue • Angel Eyes
The Midnight Man • The Glass Highway
Sugartown • Every Brilliant Eye
Lady Yesterday * Downriver
TOBY PETERS MYSTERIES
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
Murder on the Yellow Brick Road
He Done Her Wrong * Never Cross a Vampire
The De'ti! Met a Lady
THE LAWRENCE BLOCK COLLECTION
After the First Death You Could Call It Murder • Deadly Honeymoon
Alfred Hitchcock in The Vertigo Murders by J. Madison Davis
The Big Heat by William P. McGivern
To Barb with love
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Copyright © 1983,2003 Max Allan Collins
Introduction copyright © 2002 Max Allan Collins
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A LIGHTBULB MOMENT
An Introduction to True Detective
For the first few years of my writing career, I taught part-time at a community college. One of the ways I kept
