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1. 1. www.newsday.com

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   Published on: 7/18/2008   Last Visited: 7/18/2008

   In the new film, according to the movie's trailer and the novelization by mystery writer Max Allan Collins, rural women are being abducted, grotesque human remains appear and a disgraced priest Joseph Crissman ( Billy Connolly) has visions that lead police to a place of bizarre medical experiments.

2. 2. www.latimes.com

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   Published on: 11/18/2007   Last Visited: 11/18/2007

   That's why it was welcome news to his supporters when Max Allan Collins, a writer, rose at a recent campaign event here to announce that his 82-year-old mother wanted to vote for Obama.

3. 3. www.januarymagazine.com

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   Published on: 2/13/2008   Last Visited: 2/13/2008

   by Max Allan Collins
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   Collins' The Titanic Murders is merely the latest of such releases.
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   Collins prefaces this tale with his intriguing (if fictional) "recollection" about an anonymous phone caller, supposedly a member of some modern dive to the Titanic wreck site, who tells the novelist that explorers have located a couple of corpses -- one bearing a crushed skull -- in the ship's cold-storage hold.Anxious to know more, the author travels to interview Futrelle's elderly daughter in Massachusetts.She, in turn, recounts how her mother May (who'd escaped the Titanic, resigning her husband -- and a number of his unpublished Thinking Machine stories -- to a watery grave) once alluded to killings aboard the ship shortly after its final land-stop at southern Ireland on April 11, 1912.
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   The story is often very cozyish in attitude, but Collins -- who knows the shelf-life of red herrings and how to keep a historical yarn humming -- spices things up with whisperings about how Guggenheim has brought his mistress on this excursion; a second, less likely killing; horrifying revelations about a sweet-seeming nanny; and a séance that ultimately confirms Jack Futrelle's solution to the shipboard crimes.
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   Max Allan Collins is a thorough, detail-obsessed researcher and certainly today's foremost expert at concocting credible criminal scenarios within the turbulent timeline of history. (His suggestion, for instance, that the Titanic increased its speed -- a move that would seal its icy fate -- in order to bring its murderers more swiftly to justice in New York is a brilliant stroke.) While this new novel lacks the tension and menace of Collins' Stolen Away (1991) and Neon Mirage (1988), it nonetheless offers enough engrossing character studies, plot twists, and curious Edwardian-era ambience to float my boat. | April 1999