Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86
By Mike Strobel - Toronto Sun
Death was Max Haines’ stock in trade. No one could write murder and mayhem like Max.
In his deft hands, death came alive — for 34 years, 28 books and 2,500 wildly popular Crime Flashback columns in the Sun.
Name the demise and Max wrote about it, with a twinkle and a wry touch: Decapitation, poison, strangling, shooting, stabbing, vats of acid, bludgeoning...
Max made murder fun, death droll.
But there is nothing fun or droll about progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). It is a rare, slow and incurable neurological scourge akin to Parkinson’s disease.
It claimed Max Haines, at age 86, in the wee hours of Saturday at his Etobicoke home.
There never was a newspaperman quite like him. A story-teller without peer.
The rest here.
Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86 | SPECIAL TO THE SUN | Toronto & GT
By Mike Strobel - Toronto Sun
Death was Max Haines’ stock in trade. No one could write murder and mayhem like Max.
In his deft hands, death came alive — for 34 years, 28 books and 2,500 wildly popular Crime Flashback columns in the Sun.
Name the demise and Max wrote about it, with a twinkle and a wry touch: Decapitation, poison, strangling, shooting, stabbing, vats of acid, bludgeoning...
Max made murder fun, death droll.
But there is nothing fun or droll about progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). It is a rare, slow and incurable neurological scourge akin to Parkinson’s disease.
It claimed Max Haines, at age 86, in the wee hours of Saturday at his Etobicoke home.
There never was a newspaperman quite like him. A story-teller without peer.
The rest here.
Legendary crime writer Max Haines dead at 86 | SPECIAL TO THE SUN | Toronto & GT
