Max Allan Collins - Free Library Land Online - History

Snake Eyes

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 15:54:50 +0200

Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an out-of-control crime scene -- located outside Las Vegas in the legendary town of Boot Hill -- forensic investigators Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle quickly discover that the two casino shootout victims were no innocent bystanders: one was the powerful leader of the Predator gang, and the other a luckless card dealer who may have borne witness to an elaborately staged execution.Meanwhile, back in the glitter of Sin City, CSIs Warrick Brown and Greg Sanders have their own hands full, as the dark side of this desert metropolis is about to wreak havoc on the two investigators via a seemingly endless series of crimes. . . .

Double Dealer

Sun, 25 Nov 1990 15:15:35 +0300

Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle -- must combine cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. While Nick and Catherine investigate a newly discovered fifteen-year-old murder, Grissom and the rest of the team must uncover the indentity of a cold-blooded killer -- one whose execution-style, "double-tap" signature has provoked the interest of FBI agent Rick Culpepper.

Killing Game

Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:15:24 +0200

The machinations of a new supervisor may have altered Gil Grissom's team of skillful CSIs, as Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Warrick Brown are reassigned from the graveyard shift to the swing shift. That doesn't mean, however, that their paths will never cross. During the course of their separate investigations, the teams must unite again to investigate two distinct murders -- atrocities that are oddly aligned as they share much of the same collective evidence. Despite the different M.O.s, the CSIs are uncovering two wildly imperfect crimes that could possibly add up to an almost perfect one...

Heat Wave

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 00:15:44 +0300

This first in a series of novels based on the hit TV show CSI: Miami, details all-new cases that the popular forensic investigators must solve.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to those who often cannot speak for themselves: the victims.

Crime boss Kurt Wallace was fighting to hold his vast crime empire together—until a few well-placed bullets ended the struggle. As a host of dangerous "business interests" move in to seize control of Wallace's piece of the Miami underworld, Caine's CSIs must piece together the evidence to discover who was responsible for the crime that all of Miami had a motive to commit.

CSI13 - Mortal Wounds

Sun, 15 May 2011 13:46:41 +0300

CSI14 - Serial

Sun, 15 May 2011 13:46:43 +0300

Body of Evidence

Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:41:08 +0300

Black Hats

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:58:30 +0200

Legendary lawman Wyatt Earp straps on his six-shooter to battle a new breed of bad man in a new land — rising gangster Al Capone and his machine-gun toting killers on the streets of New York City.

Wolf

Sun, 19 Nov 2017 10:00:56 +0200

At rustic Wagon Wheel Lodge, a vicious killer has struck, but while the police seek a man, the real predator is a werewolf. Jack Wolff has feasted upon the flesh of women for decades, a smooth, handsome charmer living off inherited money, moving from one hunting ground to another, as he takes victim after victim. At the lodge, his prey is a lovely, under-age girl with abusive parents. Jack plays the savior while he has something far darker in mind ... will the lecherous wolf strike again, with his usual impunity, or is an unknown adversary waiting in the darkness? Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America's #1 source for horror—this original short story is fully dramatized to thrill and chill you!

Mike Hammer--Murder, My Love

Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:38:20 +0200

Hammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, United States Senator from New York, and Jamie's lovely, very smart wife, Nicole, considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being blackmailed, and Hammer is given a list of suspects who may be behind the threats to the Senator's career. But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realises there is more to this case than just a salacious tape.

Shoot The Moon (and more)

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 11:11:59 +0200

Do No Harm

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:24:31 +0300

Do No Harm is the latest mystery in the Nathan Heller series by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins.

It's 1954 and Heller takes on the Sam Sheppard case—a young doctor is startled from sleep and discovers his wife brutally murdered. He claims that a mysterious intruder killed his wife. But all the evidence points to a disturbed husband who has grown tired of married life and yearned to be free at all costs. Sheppard is swiftly convicted and sent to rot in prison.

Just how firm was the evidence...and was it tampered with to fit a convenient narrative to settle scores and push political agendas? Nathan's old friend Elliot Ness calls in a favor and as Nathan digs into the case he becomes convinced of Sheppard's innocence. But Nate can't prove it and has to let the case drop.

The road to justice is sometimes a long one. Heller's given another chance years later and this time he's determined to free the man...even if it...

Reincarnal

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 22:54:30 +0200

Under hypnosis at a party, hip young artist Nora Chaney becomes Heather, a high school girl attending a prom in the heavy metal eighties, where—making love in the parking lot with her boy friend—she is butchered by a sexually-deranged serial killer. Is the party game just Nora's vivid imagination running away with itself, perhaps fueled by her own hang-ups? But when Nora begins having vivid dreams that foretell current crimes by that same serial killer—still active all these years later—she joins with an investigative reporter to find and stop this madman ... and avenge her death in a prior life. Hosted by Malcolm McDowell and commissioned by Fangoria—America's #1 source for horror—this original short story is fully dramatized to thrill and chill you!

Girl Most Likely

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:00:56 +0200