Extremely prolific Iowa novelist Max Allan Collins, the creator of early 20th-century private eye Nate Heller (Flying Blind, Angel in Black, Chicago Confidential), as well as private eye Ms. Tree (Deadly Beloved), hired killer Quarry (The Last Quarry), and professional thief Nolan, turns 60 years old today. And he seems not to be slowing down one iota. Not only is the Shamus Award-winning Collins working to prepare the late Mickey Spillane’s final books for posthumous publication, but he has a sequel to last year’s A Killing in Comics, Strip for Murder, due out in May; a new standalone thriller, Red Sky in Morning (penned under his pseudonym “Patrick Culhane”), coming in August; and a fresh Quarry novel (The First Quarry) due out from Hard Case Crime in October. Oh, and it looks as if he’ll be writing new Heller novels in the near future.
I was pleased and privileged a few years back to interview Collins at length for January Magazine. If you’d like to read that exchange, it can be found here.
Do you want to send Max your own birthday wishes? You can do so at this publicly available e-mail address: macphilms@hotmail.com.
READ MORE: “Dick Tracy: The Collins Casefiles, Vol. 3,” by Christopher Mills (Guns in the Gutter).
Monday, March 03, 2008
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