A Conversation with Max Allan Collins

Clay Stafford Interviews Max Allan Collins about his long storied career as a mystery writer. The interview goes over Collins’s relationship with Mickey Spillane, his work on Dick Tracy, Ms. Tree, and a few of his other novels.

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