Authors-In-Your-Pocket ShowTM Exclusive podcast featuring the highly acclaimed, New York Times bestselling novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker Max Allan Collins, in his first podcast appearance.
Max Allan Collins is the New York Times bestselling American mystery novelist who has been called "mystery's Renaissance man". He has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie adaptations and historical fiction. He wrote the graphic novel Road to Perdition (which was developed into the Academy Award Winning film). He scripted the internationally syndicated comic strip DICK TRACY from 1977 to 1993, and wrote three TRACY novels and a number of collections of his TRACY comic strip work have been published. He wrote books to expand on the Dark Angel TV series. He has also served as the creative consultant for a number of major productions, and has written books and comics based on the "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" TV series.
Collins has also written two novel sequels to his popular Road to Perdition…which are Road to Purgatory and most recently Road to Paradise. In addition to these, he also wrote three more graphic novels starring the characters from Road to Perdition. These graphic novels, called collectively On the Road to Perdition, take place during the course of Road to Perdition.
Collins also wrote a series of novels about real life Untouchable Eliot Ness' career as Director of Public Safety in Cleveland, which include Butcher's Dozen, a fictionalized account of the investigation of the Cleveland Torso Murderer.
One of his longest running and well-known series is his Nathan Heller novels. In which Chicago Private Investigator, Heller, 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 is 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 the aviatrix. The most recent book in this series, Chicago Confidential, moved the action of the series into the 1950s.
In addition to his work as a writer, Collins is an accomplished director. His films include Mommy, Mommy 2: Mommy's Day, Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market, Shades of Noir, documentaries Mike Hammers Mickey Spillane and Caveman: V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop, and most recently Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life.
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.
Collins and his wife Barbara, the acclaimed short-story writer, have collaborated on a number of short stories and novels. Their most recent joint novel, Antiques Roadkill, using the collaborative penname "Barbara Allan", was published in 2006 by Kensington Publishing.
In September 2006, The Private Eye Writers of America bestowed its highest honor to Collins, presenting him with “The Eye” for lifetime contribution to the genre.
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