title: Maxim's Book of Big Pictures: Hot Babes, Strange Freaks and Bad, Bad Accidents
author: editors of Maxim
description: The editors of MAXIM are the gang who brought you MAXIM Magazine, the most popular men's lifestyle magazine in America. The editors of MAXIM have spent years compiling a private stock of photos too hot to run in MAXIM magazine.
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  13 Classic Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  12 Masters of the Genre
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Unreasonable Doubt”, Copyright © Max Allan Collins, 2001.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Death’s Brother”, Copyright © Bill Crider. Originally published in New
  Mystery Magazine #2, 1992.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Poisoned”, Copyright © Stephen Gallagher. Originally published Kimota 6,
  1997.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Remaindered”, Copyright © Lee Goldberg. Originally published in the August
  issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 2001.
  
  
  
  
  
  “Fire in the Sky”, Copyright © Joel Goldman, 2011.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Baby Store”, Copyright © Ed Gorman. Originally published in Noir 13,
  2010.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Jade Elephant”, Copyright © Libby Fischer Hellmann. Originally published
  in Expletive Deleted, 2007.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Big O”, Copyright © Vicki Hendricks. Originally published in A Hell of a
  Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, 2007.
  
  
  
  
  
  “The Chirashi Covenant”, Copyright © Naomi Hirahara. Or