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Mike Hammer - Baby, It's Murder - by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- Mike Hammer's deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.
- About the Author: Mickey Spillane is the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II as a result of the unprecedented success of his Mike Hammer novels, feeding the public's appetite for sexy, violent, straight-talking crime stories.
- 192 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective
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Book Synopsis
Mike Hammer's deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist. The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st-century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973. Nine years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation - this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling's seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki. Mikki must deal with the attention of two boys vying for her affection - Hammer preferring the good kid from a wealthy family over the long-haired doper with an Easy Rider vibe. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer - filled with contempt for dope dealers - goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about. But a final resolution awaits him in the future at that funeral...Review Quotes
PRAISE FOR MICKEY SPILLANE Mike Hammer is an icon of our culture.
- The New York Times A superb writer. Spillane is one of the century's bestselling authors.
- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
PRAISE FOR MAX ALLAN COLLINS [Collins] has no problem serving up Hammer the same way Spillane did, with plenty of mayhem, violence, and sex, dished out in straight-ahead, no-frills prose, right on target, so direct, with no room for sissy stuff like digressions, detours, or doubts. Hammer is a shark that needs to keep swimming to survive, and Collins tosses plenty of chum into these waters... It's the real deal, folks: primo, primal detective fiction. Pass the peanuts.
- Mystery Scene Max Allan Collins is the closest thing we have to a 21st century Mickey Spillane.
- ThisWeek (Ohio) Collins' witty, hardboiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.
- Entertainment Weekly
About the Author
Mickey Spillane is the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II as a result of the unprecedented success of his Mike Hammer novels, feeding the public's appetite for sexy, violent, straight-talking crime stories. He also starred as Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters. Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88 in 2006. Max Allan Collins was hailed in 2004 by Publishers Weekly as "a new breed of writer." A frequent Mystery Writers of America nominee in both fiction and non-fiction categories, he has earned an unprecedented eighteen Private Eye Writers of America nominations, winning for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). In 2002, his graphic novel Road to Perdition was adapted into an Academy-Award winning film, starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law and Daniel Craig. He lives in Iowa, USA.Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W)
Weight: 1.25 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Publisher: Titan Books (UK)
Theme: Hard-Boiled
Format: Hardcover
Author: Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Language: English
Street Date: March 4, 2025
TCIN: 91572476
UPC: 9781803364599
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-7253
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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