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by: Max Allan Collins
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780843957785
ISBN: 0843957786
Label: Hard Case Crime
Manufacturer: Hard Case Crime
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 203
Publication Date: November 27, 2007
Publisher: Hard Case Crime
Sales Rank: 119638
Studio: Hard Case Crime
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Rating:  - I love a MsTree
It good to see Ms Tree again. Collins updated the Character for the present day. The story is from the old Ms Tree comics back in the early 80's. If You read those stories (I have) it be all too familar to have any effect for the surpise ending with her shrink. Those who have not are in for a treat.
I heard rumors of putting Ms Tree comics in trade paperbacks. If so, get them, I only hope they reprint the letters pages from those issues.
A quote at the time said those who love or hate ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome Modern Pulp
Still reeling from the honeymoon death of her husband, tough female PI Michael Tree is holding the Tree Agency together. It was coincidence she and her husband shared the same first name, and her latest case has her thinking too many things of late seem to be coincidences. When an attorney friend asks her to look into the circumstances surrounding his new client's reasons for murdering her husband and a hooker in a hotel room, Ms. Tree unearths an intricate scheme controlled by a mastermind. She ... Read More
Rating: - Super Reader
Ms. Tree, revisited.
To start with the end material, Collins gives an overview of how the character came into being via comic serials and issues, in a bit of a surprise - and also a tv series being declined for NYPD Blue. He mentions this is an updated take on the origin story with a few changes. The original idea for the character was apparently a bit of a gender reversal of the Mike Hammer and secretary tale.
Here, in a story told via flashbacks in a visit to her ... Read More
Rating:  - Hard Case Crime series consistently good
Max Allan Collins turns a great graphic novel into a great novel. This imprtiont is consistently publishing the best noir around.
Rating: - Hard-Bitten Heroine with a Softer Side
Ms. Michael Tree is a tough, yet believable heroine base on Mikey Spillane's Velda. This is an outstanding example of a mistakenly derided genre. The characters aren't as one-dimensional as some other reviewers have claimed; this is a modernized crime noir novel, not War and Peace. The language is also what readers expect from Hard Case Crime. This novel delivers the goods.
I'm impressed by the unusual plot device with Ms.Tree on the psychiatrist's couch and the action moving back and forth ... Read More
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