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Spillane s popularity is reflected in the prices of his most collectible books. Collins, whose own books include the road to perdition series and the nathan heller detective novels, and who befriended spillane in the 1980s, said in a statement. Spillane is a master in compelling you to always turn the next page. The macho mystery writer, who wowed millions of readers with the shootemup sex and violence of gumshoe. A circus was used as a setting in the girl hunters. Max allan collins is an awardwinning writer of mysteries, comics, thrillers, screenplays, and historical fiction. Discount prices on books by mickey spillane, including titles like mickey spillane s mike hammer.
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While the hammer books were set in new york, spillane was a longtime resident of murrells inlet, a coastal community near myrtle. Near fine with tail of spine bumped and bottom corner of front cover very lightly bumped, in a fine, mylarcovered dust jacket. Fawcett gold medal books published mickey spillanes novels. The ultimate guide to mickey spillane books, movies and. I have read most of the mike hammer series as well as other spillane books, but i had not read the black alley. Spillanes first book after a 10year retirement, this collection includes the novella everybodys watching me and seven short stories, as well as the screen test of mike hammer, a reproduction of the original screen test script used with four pages of photographs. I have been a fan of mickey spillane s mike hammer detective novels for more than 40 years. Mickey spillane audiobooks download instantly today. Mickey spillanes mike hammer transcends toughness in his 1947 debut novel that sets the tone for this vigilante private investigator. There is a total of 20 novels in the series which are published from 1947 to 2014.
New mike hammer novels by mickey spillane to be published. A narcotics dealer was the nemesis of mike hammer in kiss me deadly. The independent publisher titan books said it had acquired the worldwide and digital rights to three unpublished mike hammer novels from spillanes archives that would be. Black alley signed first edition mickey spillane on. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Get the best deals on mickey spillane books when you shop the largest online selection at. Hammers attitude towards criminals is defined on page sixteen when he says, they crack down on society and i crack down on them. There were other books kept, accounting records that were largely fictional, intended for the irs but in this particular volume. The killing man mickey spillane books tell you why.
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