Mickey Spillane, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5146-4
Eighty-five-year-old Spillane (I, the Jury
; Erection Set
; Tomorrow I Die
) shows little evidence of advanced age in this entertaining island adventure featuring ex-spook Mako Hooker and his Carib fishing partner, Billy Bright. Mako, retired on...
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Mickey Spillane, Author with Max Allan Collins, read by Stacy Keach. Blackstone Audio $24.95 (
, unabridged, six CDs, 8 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4332-4829-0
, unabridged, six CDs, 8 hrs., $24.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4332-4829-0
This isn’t your father’s Mike Hammer. More like your grandfather’s. Though he’s now a self-admitted “member of AARP,” Hammer remains as tough as a boiled owl as he sleuths a series of murders involving the femur...
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Mickey Spillane, Author New American Library $16 (513p) ISBN 978-0-451-20352-6
Fans of hard-boiled detective novels will relish the return of three Mickey Spillane classics in The Mike Hammer Collection: I, the Jury, My Gun Is Quick, Vengeance Is Mine. Packed with heavy doses of testosterone, fast action, brutality and...
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Mickey Spillane, Author Dutton Books $17.95 (228p) ISBN 978-0-525-24827-9
``I rammed my elbow back and felt teeth go under it and the back of my head mashed the guy's nose who was holding me.'' Mike Hammer is back, and after almost 20 years, he's as psychotically hard-boiled as ever. Here, there's a dead man in Hammer's...
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Mickey Spillane, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-94229-0
Mike Hammer is a hard guy to kill. Caught in a gangster shootout in New York City, Hammer takes two slugs in the gut. Triage teams leave the tough PI for dead, but a burned-out doctor, wasting away in dockside bars, reclaims his professional pride...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Stacy Keach, Read by, Full Cast, With , read by Stacy Keach and a full cast. Blackstone Audio $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4417-1256-1
Beautifully produced, this fully realized original radio drama hits all the right notes for an exciting noir adventure. Stacy Keach, who has made PI Mike Hammer his own, provides just the right voice for the now iconic tough guy. Based on material...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Stacy Keach, Read by, Full Cast, Read by , read by Stacy Keach and a full cast. Blackstone Audio $19.95 (
, adaptation, three CDs, 3 hrs., $19.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4332-5139-9
, adaptation, three CDs, 3 hrs., $19.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4332-5139-9
With fists swinging, Spillane’s iconic private eye is back in two exciting original dramatizations. In the first, a lost love of Hammer’s is gruesomely murdered, embroiling him in a dangerous case involving a corporate conspiracy and a...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-783291-42-7
Collins’s 10th posthumous novel-length collaboration with Spillane (after 2016’s A Long Time Dead) successfully integrates PI Mike Hammer’s stereotypical tough-guy narration into a whodunit plot set in 1965 New York. Hammer’s knack for being in the...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Mysteriouspress.com, $14.99 trade paper (227p) ISBN 978-1-5040-3609-2
Collins (Murder Never Knocks) brings his considerable experience with iconic PI Mike Hammer to these eight formulaic stories adapted from manuscripts that Spillane left incomplete at his death, though the collection is definitely a mixed bag. At his
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-783291-34-2
In the gripping opening of Collins's ninth posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2015's Kill Me, Darling), a gun-wielding hit man confronts PI Mike Hammer in his Manhattan office. Fortunately, the gunman makes the typical bad guy mistake of...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (titanbooks.com), $22.99 (296p) ISBN 978-1-783291-38-0
Set in 1954, Collins’s seventh posthumous collaboration with Mike Hammer creator Spillane (after 2014’s King of the Weeds) is one of his best, liberally dosed with the razor-edged prose and violence that marked the originals. The New York City PI...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $22.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-857684-67-7
What's billed as the penultimate Mike Hammer novel, a posthumous collaboration between Collins and Spillane (Complex 90), will leave even die-hard fans wondering whether the effort to complete the manuscript was worthwhile. Instead of the gritty...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-85768-466-0
Set in 1964, Collins’s seventh posthumous collaboration with iconic hard-boiled author Spillane (after 2012’s Lady, Go Die!) boasts a ridiculously high body count. In chapter one, PI Mike Hammer, who’s been working for American intelligence, admits...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-85768-465-3
A clever, fast-moving plot drives Collins’s gritty fifth posthumous collaboration with MWA Grand Master Spillane (after 2011’s The Consummata), which picks up about a year after the events of the debut Hammer novel, I, the Jury (1947). Late one...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-85768-288-8
Collins (Road to Perdition) once again successfully completes an unfinished Spillane crime novel, this one a sequel to 1967’s The Delta Factor. In the late 1960s, Morgan the Raider is on the run in Miami, after the Feds mistakenly ID him as the...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-15-101460-6
Set in the 1970s, Collins's impressive third posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2010's The Big Bang) finds "an older, ailing Mike Hammer returning to New York and finding it (and himself) changed," though readers will see little evidence...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler $25 (247p) ISBN 978-0-15-101448-4
Drawing on an unpublished partial Spillane manuscript dating from the '60s, Collins resurrects Spillane's randy, two-fisted New York City PI, Mike Hammer, in a mystery likely to appeal only to Hammer fans. When Hammer intervenes to save a...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins, read by Stacy Keach, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-3514-0
A triple combination of talent comes together to bring the iconic Mike Hammer back for a new adventure. Collins, working with Spillane's incomplete manuscript and copious notes, has completed a sterling addition to the Hammer canon. The third...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Lawrence Block, Introduction by New American Library $17 (517p) ISBN 978-0-451-20425-7
Close on the heels of Volume 1 (Forecasts, May 14), The Mike Hammer Collection: Volume 2 collects another three Mickey Spillane novels: One Lonely Night, The Big Kill and Kiss Me, Deadly. Introduced by multiple Shamus- and Edgar-winner Lawrence ...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, Editor, Lynn F. Myers, Jr., Editor Crippen & Landru Publishers $48 (224p) ISBN 978-1-885941-98-5
Byline: Mickey Spillane, edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers Jr., offers a wealth of rare Spillane material: two Mike Hammer cases in short story form that later appeared as novels, the transcript of a Mike Hammer playlet, 14 articles by...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, Editor, Lynn F. Myers, Jr., Editor Crippen & Landru Publishers $20 (224p) ISBN 978-1-885941-99-2
Byline: Mickey Spillane, edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers Jr., offers a wealth of rare Spillane material: two Mike Hammer cases in short story form that later appeared as novels, the transcript of a Mike Hammer playlet, 14 articles by...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, Prepared by . Hard Case Crime $6.99 (219p) ISBN 978-0-8439-5777-8
One of a handful of novels he was working on at the time of his death, this fine, perhaps final, work from hard-boiled fiction icon Spillane (1918–2006) was prepared for publication by Hard Case vet Max Allan Collins. In it, NYPD detective...
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Mickey Spillane, Author, Max Allan Collins, With with Max Allan Collins. Harcourt/Penzler $23 (274p) ISBN 978-0-15-101454-5
Tough guy PI Mike Hammer fighting terrorists in post-9/11 Manhattan? That's the improbable scenario developed by Hammer's creator, who introduced him in 1947's I, the Jury
, and completed after Spillane's death in 2006 by Collins.
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Mickey Spillane. Hard Case Crime, $22.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-78565-686-6
At the start of this final novel by MWA Grand Master Spillane (1918–2006), prepared for publication by Spillane expert Max Allan Collins, pilot Joe Gillian makes a forced landing in his vintage plane somewhere in “John Wayne country.” Joe soon...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Kensington, $24 (226p) ISBN 978-1-61773-598-1
Spillane and Collins’s well-crafted third Caleb York western (after 2016’s The Big Showdown) finds the former Wells Fargo detective—now sheriff of Trinidad, N.Mex.—enjoying the peaceful benefits
of being believed dead, but he soon has trouble on...
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Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-785655-56-2
Set in 1989, MWA GrandMaster Collins’s competent 12th posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2019’s Murder, My Love) finds Mike Hammer still operating as a PI when the WWII vet would have been in his late 60s. That touch of realism allows...
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