Mystery Books
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On Lying in Bed & Other EssaysAlberto Manguel has edited for Bayeux Arts this fascinating collection of G.K. Chesterton's essays.Alberto Manguel
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Kill Me (Alan Gregory)He has chosen to die and signed a contract with the right people to make it happen. Everything will go as planned, even if he
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Fallen Curtain, TheA stranger lures a child into his car with the promise of sweets. A young man spots his fiancée’s double in a public
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Cross Fire (Alex Cross)Wedding bells ringDetective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to th
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The Lincoln Lawyer (A Lincoln Lawyer Novel)This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and
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Postern of FateIn this ingenious puzzler-the last novel Agatha Christie ever wrote-Tommy and Tuppence Beresford discover a clue to a killer's ide
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A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novels)A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011A Publishers Weekly
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Mystery Movies
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The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)Winner of two 1995 Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Original Screenplay, this masterful, atmospheric film noir enraptured audie
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The Butterfly Effect (Infinifilm Edition)A young man struggling to access sublimated childhood memories finds a technique that allows him to travel back to the past. Occup
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12 Monkeys (Special Edition)Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée (which is included on the DVD Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines int
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Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, d
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The ArrivalCalling this 1996 science fiction thriller "a glorified B movie," isn't a criticism. Writer-director David Twohy managed to get in
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Mystery Authors
Max Allan Collins biography
Max Allan Collins (born March 3, 1948) is an American mystery writer. He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was developed into a film in 2002), created the comic book private eye Ms. Tree, and took over writing the Dick Tracy comic strip from creator Chester Gould and one of the Batman comic books for a time. He wrote books to expand on the Dark Angel TV series. He has also written books and comics based on the TV series franchise CSI. More recently, he has written a book, Buried Deep, based on the TV Series Bones.
Collins's longest running series and arguably his best known work is his Nathan Heller series. Heller is a Chicago private investigator who gets involved in famous crimes and meets famous people of the 1930s and 1940s, including Orson Welles, Frank Nitti, and Sally Rand. The first novel in this historical fiction series, True Detective, won the 1984 Shamus Award for Best P.I. Hardcover from the Private Eye Writers of America. Collins won his second Shamus in 1992 for the Heller novel Stolen Away, an account of the Lindbergh kidnapping. His 1999 novel Flying Blind sees Heller investigate the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, along the way becoming romantically involved with her. The most recent book in this series, Chicago Confidential, moved the action into the 1950s. Collins has recently announced that he has completed a new entry in the series, due out in June 2011, about Marilyn Monroe. He has begun research on a Nate Heller novel about the JFK assassination.[
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