Editing Max Allan Collins (section)

===Nathan Heller series===
Collins' longest running series and arguably his best known work is his Nathan Heller series. Heller is a Chicago private investigator who gets involved in famous crimes and meets famous people from the 1930s to the 1960s, including [[Orson Welles]], [[Frank Nitti]], and [[Sally Rand]]. The first novel in this historical fiction series, ''True Detective'', won the 1984 [[Shamus Award]] for Best P.I. Hardcover from the [[Private Eye Writers of America]]. Collins won his second Shamus in 1992 for the Heller novel ''Stolen Away'',<ref name="Shamus winners" /> an account of the [[Lindbergh kidnapping]]. His 1999 novel ''[[Flying Blind (novel)|Flying Blind]]'' sees Heller investigate the disappearance of [[Amelia Earhart]], along the way becoming romantically involved with her. With the release of ''Chicago Confidential'', Collins moved the action into the 1950s. ''Target Lancer'', about an alleged attempt to assassinate [[John F. Kennedy]] in Chicago just weeks before the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|actual assassination]] in Dallas, was published in November 2012.
*''True Detective'' (November 1983)
*''True Crime'' (December 1984)
*''The [[Million-Dollar Wound]]'' (February 1986)
*''Neon Mirage'' (February 1988)
*''Stolen Away'' (May 1991)
*''Dying in the Post-War World'' (October 1991) – Novella
*''Carnal Hours'' (April 1994) (about [[Harry Oakes]]' murder)
*''Blood and Thunder'' (August 1995) (about [[Huey Long]]'s assassination)
*''Damned in Paradise'' (October 1996)
*''[[Flying Blind (novel)|Flying Blind]]'' (August 1998)
*''Majic Man'' (September 1999)
*''Angel in Black'' (March 2001)
*''Kisses of Death: A Nathan Heller Casebook'' ([[Crippen & Landru]], June 2001) – Short story collection
*''Chicago Confidential'' (June 2002)
*''Bye Bye, Baby'' (August 2011)
*''Chicago Lightning: The Collected Nathan Heller Short Stories'' (October 2011)
*''Triple Play: A Nathan Heller Casebook (April 2012)'' – Includes "Dying in the Post-War World", "Kisses of Death", and "Strike Zone"
*''Target Lancer'' (November 2012)
*''Ask Not ''(2013)
*''Better Dead'' (2016)
*''Do No Harm'' (2020)
*''The Big Bundle'' (January 2023)
*''Too Many Bullets'' (October 2023)