CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial #5

by Max Allan Collins

36 pages

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 2006.

He has also published under the name Patrick Culhane. He and his wife, Barbara Collins, have written several books together. Some of them are published under the name Barbara Allan.

Book Awards
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1984) : True Detective
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : Stolen Away
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : Carnal Hours
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Damned in Paradise
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : Flying Blind: A Novel about Amelia Earhart
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Angel in Black

Japanese: マックス・アラン・コリンズ
or マックス・アラン コリンズ

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, the Jack the Ripper copycat turns out to be a violent misogynist. Shocking, I know. I do like how he ends up, though... if only the original Ripper had met the same fate. He would have deserved it. Sometimes I think that particular case is too famous, though. I wonder if it would have been better if the case, as well as the culprit, languished away in obscurity. As it is, that horrible little man probably got a great deal of pleasure out of his fame. Which is somewhat hypocritical for me to say, given that I enjoy copycat murder mysteries of this type and subsequently keep feeding the beast, but there it is.