CSI: Demon House

CSI, Graphic Novel #3

by Max Allan Collins, Gabriel Rodríguez (Artist), Ashley Wood (Artist)

When a real body turns up in a charity haunted house, the members of Las Vegas's CSI team -- already busy on a series of armed robberies -- find themselves pulling double duty. It's all tricks and no treats for Grissom and crew!

Genres: Comics, Mystery, Graphic Novels, Crime

119 pages, Graphic Novel

First published October 1, 2004

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

[Sohxpie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The CSI formula is perfect for TV so I was intrigued to see how well it would translate to a graphic novel. The answer is quite well. I think it really helped that the two cases were linked, it only got confusing nearer the end when more characters were introduced. I think the characterisation was done very well, Catherine in particular comes across very well. I loved the art style, especially the pages that looked at the more general picture of life in Las Vegas. Overall, a well-executed adaptation.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

An ok set of intertwined tales, but stilted and poorly edited, with glaring factual errors that are never addressed -- like a criminal using a double barreled pump action shotgun - something that isn't manufactured for another decade after this was written

[Octavia Cade · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read and reviewed each of the five comics collected here separately, so this is really just for my own records. Separately they weren't great, and being taken together doesn't improve them. The story's predictable, there's a desperate need for a copy editor with basic grammar skills, and the art's indifferent. Brass and Catherine are recognisable, but the other characters have only minimal similarity to the actors.

I've been reading some of the tie-in novels of this series recently, alongside my rewatch, and they're miles better than this.

[Elisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5⭐/5 rounded up.

This was a fun and entertaining read for a fellow CSI fan. However, the quips and the one-liners don't read as well as it does on the TV.

Check it out if you come across a copy.

[melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty cool storyline with 2 interwoven crimes. The art is just kinda meh.

[Chelsea · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m a huge CSI fan and started picking up the novelizations and graphic novels a few years ago. I’m not normally a graphic novel girl, but the artistry is absolutely stellar and incredibly accurate, and the storytelling as well fit into the scheme of a CSI episode with a bit more narration to adapt it into something more novel-like. This is not my first time reading the graphic, and I am likely to pick it up again as I thought the story flowed well start to finish and was a mildly entertaining read.

[Tessa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Demon House is a graphic novel with a CSI storyline.
When a real body turns up in a charity haunted house, the members of Las Vegas’s CSI team find themselves pulling double duty as they are already busy on a series of armed robberies.

The storyline itself is intriguing and I liked that. The art however was not completely my style, characters had a minimal similarity to the actors that play the characters. The uppercase of the text got on my nerves. It would have done better when using the normal typing layout.