Max Allan Collins

An all-new Mike Hammer story, developed from a never-before-seen 1950s screenplay by original creator Mickey Spillane, and written by Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry).

She's about to be a mom but she's already one mean mother! From writer Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) and artist Terry Beatty (Return to Perdition, The Phantom, Batman: Gotham Adventures) comes this hardboiled tale of one woman you don't want to mess with. Bursting to life in 1981, Ms. Tree re-established noir crime fiction in comics and pioneered what became a trend for female private eyes. It remains...

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)! Fans of pulp noir and hard-boiled detective crime fiction will love this seminal collection of classic comics. From the minds of award-winning author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the fifth collection of classic Ms Tree stories, collected together for the first time! Join Michael...

Return of a femme fatale. Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie's “problem” list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can't do the job, Julie will do it herself.

The ruthless professional killer known as Quarry long ago disappeared into a well-earned retirement. But now a media magnate has lured the restless hit man into tackling one last lucrative assignment. The target is an unlikely one-why, Quarry wonders, would anyone want a beautiful young librarian dead? And why in hell does he care? On the thirtieth anniversary of the enigmatic assassin's first appearance, bestselling author Max Allan Collins brings...

Making a score and settling one at the same time is a rare opportunity, enough to bring Nolan out of criminal retirement... but he didn't count on the hillbillies or the skyjacker... Nolan is a pro, a veteran of mob vendettas and decades of high-tension heists. All he wants in his advancing middle age is his slice of the American pie - a way to make capitalism pay without having to drag guns into it. But a bullet-scarred life does not come without...

Her business is deadly and always ends with a smoking gun! From write Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition, Quarry, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer) and artist Terry Beatty (Return to Perdition, The Phantom Batman: Gotham Adventures) comes the second volume of the tough-as-nails private eye and her run-ins with love, deceit and the stench of gunpowder. The iconic crime fiction heroine is back. Ms. Tree remains the longest running private-eye comic...

First there was The Last Quarry, then there was The First Quarry-now look who's caught in the middle. The enigmatic hit man Quarry-star of seven celebrated novels and an award-winning feature film (The Last Lullaby)-is back in this violent, steamy tale of warring crime families. When two godfathers set out to bump each other off, guess who winds up with both contracts …

Crime fiction readers know Quarry-the ruthless killer for hire from Max Allan Collins' acclaimed novels-but where did Quarry's story start? For first time ever, the bestselling author of Road to Perdition takes us back to the beginning, revealing the never-before-told story of Quarry's first job: infiltrating a college campus and eliminating a professor whose affair with one of his beautiful young students is the least of his sins.

Fancy Anders goes undercover at an aircraft plant to solve the murder of Rosie the Riveter in the first of three thrilling mysteries by Road to Perdition creator Max Allan Collins. Fall 1942. When her Hollywood private detective daddy is called back to uniform, Fancy Anders is issued orders of her own-answer the phone, make referrals, and keep the place dusted. But the twenty-four-year-old Barnard grad-whose hobbies include shooting, flying, and...