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Title: CSI: Sin City by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0-7434-4405-1 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Visit to Sin City as Much Fun as I Hoped!
Comment: Don't skip this one if you don't like TV tie-ins! I rarely read tie-in novels, but I recommend this one! I picked it up as much because I like Max Allan Collins as because of the connection to CSI. I have watched CSI on TV a few times, and enjoyed it, but didn't expect much from a novel based on the show.
"Sin City" delivers an entertainingly complex story with the mix of gritty forensics and Vegas atmosphere that I enjoyed in the TV show. It is a solidly written novel, and you do not have to watched the show to enjoy it. Max Allan Collins is such a good writer that I recommend this to any mystery fan. And I hope that CSI fans who enjoy this will go on to try some of Heller's other novels!
Rating: 4
Summary: The best way to get your CSI fix when it isn't on TV
Comment: I'm not too ashamed to admit the fact that I am a closet fan of CSI. I watched one episode of the series and I got hooked on how the underappreciated members of the Las Vegas Police Department's Criminalistics Division(the CSI's more common name) use an unorthodox combination of high-tech wizardry and gadgetry along with old-fashioned guesswork and detecting to solve the crimes most other agencies would balk at. My further interest in the series has even led to me purchasing both of the CSI computer games. But this was the first book in the CSI books that I read and it captures the TV style to a T.
The CSI crew find themselves involved in 2 unique cases: the disappearance of a loving wife named Lynn Pierce and the brutal murder of an exotic dancer named Jenna Patrick. The book splits the cases with team leader Gil Grissom taking the case of the missing woman and Catherine Willows (Grissom's unofficial second in command) somewhat reluctantly taking the stripper murder (as CSI fans will know Catherine herself used to be a stripper)
Suspicion grows in both cases as the teams find clues that lead them to believe that the people that were closest to the respective victims (The woman's husband in the disappearance case, and Patrick's close friend and co-worker Tera Jameson in the dancer case) are the ones that may be the most responsible for these ghastly crimes. But can they really prove their hunches?
Sin City is a great read for those who are CSI fans and fans of mystery alike. It takes the CSI TV experience and gives it an innovative written form. Capturing the style and dry wit that has made the show a bonafide hit (especially the very sly game of name switching in the stripper case) is what makes the book worth every penny.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lighten up, csi humor
Comment: I love the show, loved Max's books. I love it that the nerds get to be the heros. I think that its the humor that gives the very serous subject matter its balance. I love that Max Allen Collins understood the characters enough to use humor in his books.
One that really stands out is the sceen where Gil is in a video store and asks the clerk if he has a copy of the movie "Manhunter". The humor came when I remembered that the same actor who plays Gil in the series, also star'd in "Manhunter", much better version of "Silence of the Lambs". I could almost see the sly smile that comes on Gil's face when he interjects knowing humor into the series. Don't you just love in jokes.
I hope I didn't spoil the books for anyone. If I did, I'm sorry.
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Title: CSI: Cold Burn by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743444078 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Double Dealer : Crime Scene Investigation by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743444043 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Body of Evidence by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743455827 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: CSI: Miami: Florida Getaway : Book One by Max Allan Collins ISBN: 0743480554 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Csi: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial by Max Allan Collins, Gabriel Rodriguez, Ashley Wood ISBN: 193238202X Publisher: Idea & Design Works Llc Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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