Allan D. R. McQuarrie's Books

Meet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle -- must combine cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. While Nick and Catherine investigate a newly discovered fifteen-year-old murder, Grissom and the rest of the team must uncover the indentity of a cold-blooded killer -- one whose execution-style, "double-tap" signature has provoked the interest of FBI agent Rick Culpepper.

TILL DEATH DO US PART Marcy Addwatter killed her husband – there’s no question about that. Shot him dead in the motel room where he was trysting with a blonde hooker. Shot the hooker, too. But where the cops might see an open-and-shut case, private eye Michael Tree –Ms. Michael Tree – sees a conspiracy. For Ms. Tree, digging into it could mean digging her own grave... and digging up her own murdered husband's. Based on the longest-running private-eye comic book series of all time, DEADLY BELOVED brings you an all-new adventure of the legendary Ms. Tree – the groundbreaking female P.I. who put the ‘graphic’ into graphic novel...

A former striptease artist runs a newspaper syndicate's distribution of a superhero comic. When her publisher is murdered, she hunts for the killer among minions of a different sort of syndicate.

Acclaimed mystery author and comics writer Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) took over scripting Chester Gould's iconic detective strip in 1978, and Dick Tracy would never be the same again. The first of several volumes collecting Collins's masterful yet controversial 15-year run, the art is supplied by Rick Fletcher and Pulitzer Prize-winner Dick Locher. Illustrated in b/w throughout.

Acclaimed mystery author and comics writer Max Collins (Road to Perdition) took over scripting Chester Gould's iconic detective strip in 1978, and Dick Tracy would never be the same again. The second of several volumes collecting Collins's masterful yet controversial 15-year run, the art is supplied by Rick Fletcher.

Originally published in 1976 under the title The dealer.

Colorful characters with murderous motives populate this illustrated mystery in which the heated rivalry between a pair of cartoonists ends in homicide and a stripper-turned-detective and her stepson-partner seek the killer. "Great fun." — Mystery Scene.

It's 1954, and a rabble-rousing social critic has declared war on comic books - especially the scary, gory, bloody sort published by the bad boys of the industry, EF Comics. But on the way to a Senate hearing on whether these depraved publications should be banned, the would-be censor meets a violent end of his own - leaving his opponents in hot water. Can Jack Starr, private eye to the funny-book industry, and his beautiful boss Maggie unravel the secret of Dr. Frederick's gruesome demise? Or will the crackdown come, falling like an executioner's axe...?

Dick Tracy debuted in American newspapers in 1931, a revolutionary cops and robbers strip that drew its inspiration from the mob-drenched headlines of the day. Hero Tracy had joined the police force in the wake of a personal tragedy and set out to settle the score with an endless string of underworld figures. Acclaimed mystery author Max Allan Collins took over scripting duties on Dick Tracy from the strip's creator Chester Gould, in 1978 and began an 11-year run on the strip that was at once faithful to the original and as innovative as had been the original on its first publication." -- Back cover, volume 1

Tom Bristow fears for his life after turning 'State's Evidence' against a criminal gang. Inspector Muldrew has reasons to believe that one source of his fears may come from a Canadian connection. He and Star reporter, Tiger Lillie, travel to Ontario to look into the mystery. 1930s.

Luck is on the side of most during the incident at the Four Kings Casino and Hotel, when the simmering tension between two rival biker gangs suddenly boils over into all-out violence -- miraculously, there are only two fatalities despite the hundreds of rounds fired on the casino floor. Called to an out-of-control crime scene -- located outside Las Vegas in the legendary town of Boot Hill -- forensic investigators Gil Grissom, Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, and Sara Sidle quickly discover that the two casino shootout victims were no innocent bystanders: one was the powerful leader of the Predator gang, and the other a luckless card dealer who may have borne witness to an elaborately staged execution. Meanwhile, back in the glitter of Sin City, CSIs Warrick Brown and Greg Sanders have their own hands full, as the dark side of this desert metropolis is about to wreak havoc on the two investigators via a seemingly endless series of crimes. . . .

Collects three full-length stories in graphic format about the Las Vegas crime scene investigators.

A graphic novel based on the #1 series on CBS. A brutal serial killer reenacts the murders of Jack the Ripper in Las Vegas. Matters are complicated as an annual convention of hundreds of Jack the Ripper enthusiasts--attnded by hundreds of possible suspects--is in progress.

Nolan has finally buried his criminal past and begun a new life as a restaurant owner at a local mall. But a former conspirator ruins Nolan's dream life when he kidnaps his wife and for ransom demands that Nolan help him pick the mall clean.

In an illustrated mystery starring a do-or-die detective, Ms. Tree becomes the head of a big-time detective agency and begins with a case that will lead her to her late husbans's murderer

On the verge of marrying Tess Trueheart on national television, Dick Tracy is nearly killed by a sniper, and he must leave his bride at the altar to pursue the would-be cop killer. Original.

These three short mystery tales from a collection of the greatest literary minds of all time - Conan Doyle, Poe, and Maupassant - make for an enjoyable yet spine chilling read. This volume includes Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four, Guy de Maupassant's The Flayed Hand, and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes a biography of Emile Zola, theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom and at home to further engage the reader in the story. The Classics Illustrated comic book series began in 1941 with its first issue, Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers, and has since included over 200 classic tales released around the world. This new Paperback Replica edition is part of a continuing effort to make Classics Illustrated available to all, be they young readers just beginning their journeys into the great world of classic literature, or collectors who have fond memories of this much loved comic book series.

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s. And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.

Dick Tracy goes into action to prevent a slaughter when "Big Boy" Caprice and his henchman, Flattop, set out to elimate their gangster competition

Book's by Allan D. R. McQuarrie

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