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Philip Rafferty: Top five books of 2016

By Philip Rafferty

13 December, 2016

I’m really excited to be a new part of the CFL team. My reviews are appearing on the site and there are more to come. This has been a great year of crime fiction reading for me. A lot of pulpy titles have come out and come…

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Murder Never Knocks by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

7 March, 2016

As the creator of the iconic PI Mike Hammer, hardboiled author Mickey Spillane needs no introduction. Nor should Max Allan Collins. The latter’s original series about Quarry, the hit-man who targets other hitmen, is about to become a TV series. At the same time publisher…

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No turkeys this week...

By DavidPrestidge

3 March, 2016

On the Radar — Well, we say there are no turkeys this week, but at first glance there is one on the cover of TM Causey’s The Saints of the Lost and Found. But a closer look reveals it’s an angelic jacket, and the book has an excellent title….

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Quarry's Deal by Max Allan Collins

By Jeremy Megraw

6 February, 2016

Max Allan Collins, the writer of the original graphic novel The Road to Perdition that became the popular film, has been around for years. He’s written crime novels, comics and movie and TV novelisations. Batman, Dick Tracy, and the PI Nathan Heller series have all…

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Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

27 March, 2015

As Mickey Spillane’s literary executor, Max Allan Collins has been doing a great job finding and completing manuscripts by the late author. In fact, this is the fourth such book we’ve reviewed, following on from Lady, Go Die!, Complex 90 and King of the Weeds….

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King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

By RoughJustice

23 May, 2014

Once again, Max Allan Collins reprises his role as literary executor and with King of the Weeds he has completed another of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts. Whereas the last two books produced in this fashion – Lady, Go Die! and Complex 90 – went further…

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The Wrong Quarry

By RoughJustice

3 February, 2014

Written by Max Allan Collins — One of America’s leading modern pulp crime authors, Max Allan Collins has been writing Quarry stories since back in 1976. The series began with The Broker, and the most recent one was 2010’s Quarry’s Ex. Now, the hitman hero/anti-hero…

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Quarry returns in print and on TV

By crimefictionlover

2 December, 2013

Pulp hitman Quarry, created by Max Allan Collins, is to return in his 11th novel in January with the publication of The Wrong Quarry. The Vietnam vet is unusual among hitmen in that his targets are nearly always other assassins, and the people who hired…

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Philip Rafferty: Top five books of 2016

Murder Never Knocks by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

No turkeys this week...

Quarry's Deal by Max Allan Collins

Kill Me, Darling by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

King of the Weeds by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

The Wrong Quarry

Quarry returns in print and on TV

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