Author: Max Collins

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• Edith William Wachtel (1)
  • IN: The Lusitania Murders (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There’s been some cover-up about the Lusitania. . it was really murder.
    FROM: Edith William Wachtel, Lusitania survivor, (None), NULL, NULL
• S.S Van Dine (1)
  • IN: The Lusitania Murders (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Elbert Hubbard (1)
  • IN: The Lusitania Murders (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Arthur “Mickey” McBride (1)
  • IN: Neon Mirage (1988) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Life is a game of chance.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Mickey Spillane (1)
  • IN: Quarry (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I had gotten a taste of death and found it palatable to the extent that I could never again eat the fruits of a normal civilization
    FROM: Mike Hammer in "One Lonely Night", (1951), Novel, US
• Marilyn Monroe (1)
  • IN: Bye bye, baby (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you. They kind of like to take pieces out of you.
    FROM: NULL, (1962), Interview, US
• Lee Strasberg (1)
  • IN: Bye bye, baby (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Marilyn never liked good-byes.
    FROM: Lee Strasberg, from his funeral eulogy, (1962), Speech, US
• Irving Berlin (1)
  • IN: The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There’s no business like show business.
    FROM: "There's No Business Like Show Business", (1946), Song, US
• Frank Nitti (1)
  • IN: The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If you don’t do like I say, you’ll get shot in the head.
    FROM: NULL, (1935), Conversation, US/Italy
• NULL (3)
  • IN: The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II Say a prayer for my pal Who died in Guadalcanal.
    FROM: Commonest of inscriptions among the hundreds of crosses in a cemetery on that island, (None), Inscription, US
  • IN: The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Everything seemed unimportant in the face of death.
    FROM: A radio listener, the day after the broadcast (The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic), (1940), Interview, US
  • IN: After the Dark (2003) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love sickness needs a love cure.
    FROM: Chinese proverb, (None), Proverb, NULL
• Samuel Eliot Morison (1)
  • IN: The Million-Dollar Wound (1986) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lucky indeed for America that in this theater and at that juncture she depended not on boys drafted or cajoled into fighting but on “tough guys” who had volunteered to fight and who asked for nothing better than to come to grips with the sneaking enemy who had aroused all their primitive instincts.
    FROM: History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, (1962), Book, US
• James V. Forrestal (1)
  • IN: Majic Man (1999) FictioFiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: I am a victim of the Washington scene.
    FROM: James V. Forrestal America’s first Secretary of Defense, (1949), Conversation, US
• Sophocles (1)
  • IN: Majic Man (1999) FictioFiction, Mystery, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: But shrieks that fly Piercing and wild, and loud, shall mourn the tale….
    FROM: Sophocles, translated by William Mackworth Praed, (None), Book, Greece
• Charlie Chan (1)
  • IN: Damned in Paradise (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Tongue often hang man quicker than rope.
    FROM: Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo, (1937), Film, US
• Clarence Darrow (1)
  • IN: Damned in Paradise (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Although the historical incidents in this novel are portrayed more or less accurately (as much as the passage of time, and contradictory source material, will allow), fact, speculation, and fiction are freely mixed here; historical personages exist side by side with composite characters and wholly fictional ones—all of whom act and speak at the author’s whim. “What the public wants in the way of books on crime is detective stories that appeal to the passions. The public has so long been taught to hate and judge that it seems hopeless to try to teach them any sane and humane ideas of conduct and reasoning.
    FROM: The Story of My Life, (1932), Book, US
• Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer (1)
  • IN: Chicago Confidential (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Chicago is the heaven and haven of mobsters, gamblers, thieves, killers, and salesmen of every human sin.
    FROM: Chicago: Confidential!, (1950), Book, US
• Senator Estes Kefauver (1)
  • IN: Chicago Confidential (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Mafia is no fairy tale. It is ominously real, and it has scarred the face of America.
    FROM: NULL, (1951), NULL, US
• Florabel Muir (1)
  • IN: Chicago Confidential (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Murder is the essence of Chicago, just as blackmail is the essence of Hollywood.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Amelia Earhart (1)
  • IN: Flying Blind (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Although the historical incidents in this novel are portrayed more or less accurately (as much as the passage of time, and contradictory source material, will allow), fact, speculation, and fiction are freely mixed here; historical personages exist side by side with composite characters and wholly fictional ones—all of whom act and speak at the author’s whim. “I think it’s too bad when aviation movies depend for their excitement on plane wrecks and lost fliers and all that sort of thing. Perhaps that’s good drama but it certainly isn’t modern aviation.”
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Raymond Chandler (1)
  • IN: Deadly Beloved (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Down these mean streets a woman must go who is not herself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”
    FROM: The Simple Art of Murder, Paraphrased, (1950), Essay, US/England
• Arthur Conan Doyle (2)
  • IN: Grave Matters (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I never guess. It is a shocking habit.
    FROM: The Sign of Four, (1890), Novel, UK
  • IN: Bones: Buried Deep (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is mostly likely to elucidate it.
    FROM: The Hound of the Baskervilles, (1902), Novel, UK
• Partners in Crime (1)
  • IN: Grave Matters (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Very few of us are what we seem.
    FROM: Christie, Agatha, (1929), Novel, UK
• Edmond Locard (1)
  • IN: Sin City (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: When two objects come into contact, there is a material exchange, from each to the other.
    FROM: Edmond Locard, 1910 Father of Forensic Science, (1910), NULL, France
• William Ockham (1)
  • IN: Body of Evidence (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What can be done with fewer assumptions is done in vain with more.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Bon Jovi (1)
  • IN: Dark Angel Before the Dawn (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's my life It's now or never
    FROM: "It's My Life", (2000), Song, US
• Eric Burdon (1)
  • IN: Dark Angel Before the Dawn (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's my life and I'll do what I want
    FROM: "It's My Life", (1984), Song, UK
• Jack Webb (1)
  • IN: Double Dealer (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With a scientific third degree, the master criminalist makes the physical evidence talk, wringing confessions from blood, guns, narcotics, hair, fibers, metal slivers, tire marks, tool marks, and bullets.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Agatha Christie (2)
  • IN: Cold Burn (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
    FROM: Hercule Poirot, (1924), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: The London Blitz Murders (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The truth is that one never believes for a minute-no matter what danger you’re in-that you yourself are going to be killed. The bomb is always going to hit the other person.
    FROM: Taken at the Flood, (1948), Novel, UK
• Sir Doyle, Arthur Conan (1)
  • IN: Cold Burn (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay.
    FROM: Sherlock Holmes, (1892), Fictional, NULL
• R. Austin Freeman (1)
  • IN: Binding Ties (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A sound thinker gives equal consideration to the probable and the improbable.
    FROM: The Red Thumb Mark, (1907), Novel, UK
• Rex Stout (1)
  • IN: Binding Ties (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Nothing is simpler than to kill a man; the difficulties arise in attempting to avoid the consequences.
    FROM: Nero Wolfe, (1938), Fictional, US
• J.F.K (1)
  • IN: Target Lancer (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You never know what’s hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
    FROM: quoted in The Kennedys: An American Drama, (1984), Book, US
• Nicholas Katzenbach, RFK’s deputy attorney general (1)
  • IN: Target Lancer (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: My own feeling was that Bobby was worried that there might be some conspiracy … worried that the investigation would somehow point back to him.
    FROM: NULL, (2007), Interview, US
• Orson Welles (1)
  • IN: The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You don’t play murder in soft words.
    FROM: Orson Welles, press conference after “The War of the Worlds” broadcast, (1938), Speech, US
• Clyde Herring (1)
  • IN: The War of the Worlds Murder (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is my intention to introduce legislation against such Hallowe’en bogeymen.
    FROM: Iowa State Senator Clyde Herring, (None), NULL, US
• Leslie Charteris (1)
  • IN: The Hindenburg Murders (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A finger of intense radiance appeared suddenly on one of her sides, unfolded upwards with a swift blossoming, and pointed into the sky with a burst of glare….
    FROM: The Saint in Miami, (1940), Novel, England/China
• Ernst Lehmann (1)
  • IN: The Hindenburg Murders (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It must have been an infernal machine.
    FROM: Ernst Lehmann, Hindenburg captain, from his deathbed, (1937), Conversation, Germany
• May Futrelle (1)
  • IN: The Titanic Murders (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There was not the slightest thought of danger in the minds of those who sat around the tables in the luxurious dining saloon of the Titanic.
    FROM: NULL, (1912), Interview, US
• Dr. Clyde Collins Snow, forensics anthropologist (1)
  • IN: Bones: Buried Deep (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: As those who study them have come to learn, bones make good witnesses — although they speak softly, they never lie and they never forget.
    FROM: Human Osteological Remains from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, (1988), Essay, US
• R. M. Nixon (1)
  • IN: Fly Paper (1981) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sky piracy... involves the interests of every nation, the safety of every traveller, and the integrity of that structure of order on which a world community depends.
    FROM: NULL, (1969), NULL, US
• D. B. Cooper (1)
  • IN: Fly Paper (1981) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: Take me to Mexico.
    FROM: NULL, (1971), Report, NULL
• Phil and Don (1)
  • IN: After the Dark (2003) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Love hurts.”
    FROM: "Love Hurts", (1965), Song, US
• Thomas Paine (1)
  • IN: Fate of the Union (2015) Fiction, Speculative, American
    EPIGRAPH: “The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.”
    FROM: Thomas Paine (Common Sense, 1776), American political activist at the time of the Revolutionary War., (1776), Book, US
• James W. Douglass (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The promoters of the systemic evil involved in killing President Kennedy counted on our repression and denial of its reality.
    FROM: JFK and the Unspeakable, (2008), Book, US
• Allen Dulles (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: That little Kennedy... he thought he was a god.
    FROM: NULL, (1965), Conversation, US
• Carlos Marcello (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We’ll take out insurance by setting up some nut to take the fall for the job, just like they do in Sicily.
    FROM: NULL, (1962), Conversation, US/Italy
• Lyndon Baines Johnson (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One out of every four presidents has died in office.
    FROM: NULL, (1961), Interview, US
• Lewis Carroll (1)
  • IN: Ask Not (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We’re all mad here
    FROM: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, (1865), Novel, UK