Demon House (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW)) [Paperback]

Max Allan Collins (Author), Gabriel Rodriguez (Author), Ashley Wood (Author)

Book Description

Series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW) | Publication Date: October 2004

When a real body turns up in a charity haunted house, the members of Las Vegas's CSI team - already busy on a series of armed robberies - find themselves pulling double duty. It's all tricks and no treats for Grissom and crew!

Editorial Reviews

Review

Go! Essex Chonicle, W/e November 12 2004, review by Matt Adams: "...admirably captures the style and atmosphere of the show." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Max Allan Collins is a well-known author responsible for numerous award winning mystery novels, film novelisations and comics work on the Batman. He is most famous for The Road to Perdition graphic novel series-turned-movie. Gabriel Rodriguez is a newcomer to comics. CSI is his first work. Ashley Wood has worked on such titles as Ghost Rider 2099, Shadowman and Uncanny X-Men. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: IDW Publishing (October 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932382348
• ISBN-13: 978-1932382341
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,499,527 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Max Allan Collins is a New York Times bestselling author of original mysteries, a Shamus award winner and an experienced author of movie adaptions and tie-in novels. His graphic novel ROAD TO PERDITION was made into a major motion picture by Tom Hank's production company, Playtone.

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars good CSI story, September 27, 2007

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Matthew Colwell "B82Colwell" (S.E. Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Demon House (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW)) (Paperback)

good graphic novel form of CSI, decent art... Loved it! They are just getting hard to find now!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Mistakes..., October 20, 2005

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Florian Eberhorn (Berlin, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Demon House (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW)) (Paperback)

First of all, I really like the CSI series, even though I'm a bit concerned about how many spin-offs they'll produce. When I first looked into the novels and graphic novels, I was quite eager, since so much of the things I like about the series are to be found there. Yet, as I went through most of these books, most of them by Collins, I found again and again certain mistakes in the conclusions. As in this one, and not to spoil too much, there are two cases - case A and B, two shoeprints, one in each case, one with red dirt in it, one that isn't described any further. The dirt - from case A - has no further use in that case, yet somehow, miraculously, later on in Case B it indicates the living place of the perpetrator wearing that boot. I repeat, evidence from one case ends up being evidence for the other case, which happened on the same general premises, but except for that the cases have no further connection to each other.


I checked and double checked the whole book, and the only times a shoeprint with red dirt is mentioned is when it is found and analyzed by the team working case A, and then, when all of a sudden someone from Team B talks about the red dirt they found in that shoeprint leading them to a suspect.

I liked reading the book, really, the drawings are awesome, especially Wood's, but when I find something like this and the conclusions - which is the best things about CSI anyway - just don't add up, it does ruin the whole experience for me. And unfortunately, I've found equally disturbing mistakes in two other novels, namely "CSI-Miami : Heat Wave" and "CSI-Miami : Florida Getaway", where in the first, the information about one DNA sample (the information being that the person in question was African-American) was somehow conveniently transferred to another unknown DNA sample, resulting in an essential connection. In the second, the same house of the same family gets described twice. Completely different.

I guess, it's possible that maybe I didn't understand everything right, or skipped these ultimately essential details. If that is so, and someone reads this and knows, please post something here and tell me. Otherwise, mistakes like that ruin the otherwise enjoyable reading experience

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting!!!, January 15, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Demon House (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (IDW)) (Paperback)

You will not be able to put this book down! It keeps you reading and then all of a sudden your finished in a day because it is really great.