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Max Allan Collins
The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement when his daughter, a true-crime writer, is abducted by the subject of one of her books. A nail-biting…
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Notorious hitman Quarry, star of the Cinemax series, comes out of retirement for one last assignment when a media mogul hires him to assassinate a beautiful young...librarian? Twists and sexy…
Max Allen Collins
b>The sixth sensational installment in the Hard Case Crime books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition)! Fans of pulp…
Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Mike Hammer's deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.
Juliet Kerrigan
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read…
Max Collins
The next incredible instalment in the case books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition)!
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True Crime detective Nathan Heller returns in a brand new case that connects a millionaire's kidnapped child to Robert F. Kennedy's campaign to bring down union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
Acclaimed "True Crime" detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel…
Acclaimed 'True Crime' detective Nathan Heller, whose cases have sold more than 1 million copies, returns to uncover the secrets behind Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 assassination in this brand-new novel…
Sally Doherty
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Ailynn Collins
"From the sun shining on us during the day to fireflies twinkling at night, our world is illuminated by light. Have you ever wondered what light is, how it works…
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"From decorative refrigerator magnets to Earth itself, we are surrounded by magnetism. Have you ever wondered how magnets work and why they're attracted to some objects? Here's your chance to…
Ali Sparkes
Big Cat for Little Wandle Fluency has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It consists of a range of chapter books with increasing…
Despite repeated assurances that flying is safe, hardly a day goes by without a fatal aircraft crash. Many programmes have been published in an attempt to eliminate aircraft accidents but…
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When someone mentions the word "robot", what comes to mind? Many people think of mechanical characters often seen in science fiction films. But look around and you'll notice that our…
Today most people travel in vehicles powered by fossil fuels. But what will transport look like 30 years from now? Will people ride in cars that drive themselves? Will the…
Thirteen stories featuring private eye Nathan Heller, all of which are based on real cases of the 1930s and ‘40s.
A gripping forensic investigation starring former homicide detective Horatio Caine and his team, based on the hit television series CSI Miami.
A brand new mystery in the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition.
Hammer is summoned to a meeting…
With the Untouchables and Prohibition behind him and the Great Depression falling darkly across the nation, Ness arrives in Cleveland to straighten out a crooked city. An anonymous ring of…
This powerful narrative follow-up to Collins’s graphic novel Road to Perdition opens with Michael O'Sullivan returning to Chicago and his old war against the Capone mob. Interwoven is the parallel…
In this new novel in the Shamus Award-winning series, Detective Heller tries to solve the greatest mystery of the century–the unexplained disappearance of Amelia Earhart. Highly entertaining, says the Los…
Since his introduction in 1983’s True Detective, Chicago-based private eye Nathan Heller has handily earned his spot alongside American crime-fiction greats Phillip Marlowe, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Hammer. Now the…
1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded meanness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the…
Originally published: New York: New American Library, 2002.
Chicago P.I. Nate Heller returns home from duty in Guadalcanal a decorated, damaged, and dangerous hero - and drops directly from one war into another: the gangland coup to topple…
Super sleuth Nathan Heller muscles his way through another case, this time in Nassau, Bahamas, during WWII. The wealthiest resident of the island has been murdered and Heller must get…
Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1995.
The Secretary of Defense is convinced someone is out to get him, and he wants Nathan Heller to find out why. The investigation takes Heller to the tiny town of…
On leave from the Chicago police department, Nate Heller goes to Hawaii to help family friend Clarence Darrow by investigating the rape and murder of a bride only to uncover…
Written by the author of the Nathan Heller crime novels, True Detective (winner of the PWA’s Shamus Award), True Crime and The Million-Dollar Wound . In this novel, set in…
The bestselling author of Road to Perdition takes readers back to October, 1938. Orson Welles, known as radio’s The Shadow, is accused of killing his mistress on the night of…
The Lusitania’s final voyage is a newsman’s dream. First come the torpedowarnings. Then come the murders… Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards theLusitania in pursuit of…
From the author of Saving Private Ryan and The Titanic Murders comes a gripping new mystery based on history’s most terrifying air disaster. An author aboard the Hindenburg on its…
When a passenger is found dead inside a locked cabin aboard the opulent Titanic, it’s a crime worthy of the Thinking Machine, the popular fictional investigator who solves mysteries using…
Edgar Rice Burroughs created the wildly popular Tarzan of the Apesand John Carter of Mars, but the exploits of his heroes cannot rivalthe writer’s own explosive adventure, sparked…
By day, she’s Mrs. Mallowan, hospital pharmacist. By night, she’s AgathaChristie, queen of crime. Doing her part for the war effort, Agatha dispenses medicine in shell- shocked London. But…
What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you’re a guylike Mallory, it’s the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty,frightened blonde…
Roscoe Kane is one of the last - and, in Mallory’s opinion, best - of the old-school mystery writers. Back in the day, he turned out crime thrillers filled with…
The sixties are dead…and so is Ginnie Mullens. She was many things-freespirit, flower child, entrepreneur, gambler-but first and foremost she wasmystery writer Mallory’s friend and confidant since childhood…
Vietnam vet Mallory has been everywhere and done everything-from hippie life toconstruction work, from covering a reporter’s beat to walking a cop’s-before finallyreturning to small-town Iowa to try…
A mountaintop mansion. A motley collection of guests. A murder. Thisweekend has all the makings of a classic, cozy mystery story. And astory is all it’s supposed to…
When Crane, a graduate journalism student, hears that his fiancee has committed suicide, he’s immediately suspicious and launches into an investigation of her death. The tiny New Jersey town she…
