Max Allan Collins

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...

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During a brutal winter in rural Virginia, women are inexplicably vanishing. The only clues to the bizarre disappearances are the grotesque human remains that are turning up in snow banks along the highway. And a disgraced priest has begun to experience strange and disturbing visions connected to a terrible secret. But are the images haunting a fallen man of God to be trusted … or are they the deadly lies of a twisted mind? It is a case right out...

The mob couldn't kill him, the cops couldn't catch him, and even time wouldn't slow him down. Playing dirty isn't Nolan's style... until he's taken to the cleaners. Nolan was still alive, his wounds healed and his money was safe-all $800,000 of it. It was Nolan's birthday and he was sitting happy. Until Planner was killed. Planner was an eccentric antique dealer, Planner had the $800,000 in his safe. But now he was dead and the money was gone. Caught...

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...

Dive back into the case files of the no-nonsense detective, Ms. Tree, in another incredible volume of passion, crime and murder. Famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and genre-defining artist Terry Beatty deliver five thrilling adventures from the exploits of Ms. Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm-carrying private eye. No matter the danger, no matter the risk, she'll solve the case - no matter the cost.

Winner of the 2011 Audie® Award for Best Original Work Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle: the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as “minor,” and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman. Marty's lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to the P.I. for help when the Mob fingers her for the next kill. Seems the new kingpin, Carmen Rich—with whom Hammer...

When a chance encounter with a captivating femme fatale leads to a violent mob retaliation, hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer finds himself dodging both bullets and broads as he undertakes the most dangerous case of his career. Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private eye returns to comics for the first time since the 1950s in this thrilling noire series from Max Allan Collins.

Mike Hammer, the toughest PI of all, draws a seemingly routine assignment—playing bodyguard to diva Rita Vance on the eve of her big Broadway comeback. But Rita is an old flame of Hammer's, and when their romance is rekindled, the detective finds the actress facing death threats and himself the target of one hit man after another. When the actress disappears, the show must go on, which with Mike Hammer means swift, violent retaliation. While the...

Quarry is a pro in the murder business. When the mysterious man he works for becomes a target himself, Quarry is sent south to remove a traitor in the ranks. But in this wide-open city-with sin everywhere and betrayal around every corner-Quarry must make the most dangerous choice of his deadly career: who to kill?