Mike Hammer - Baby, It's Murder
$46.28
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2025
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781803364599 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1803364599 |
| Author: | Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins |
| Publisher: | Titan Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Titan Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 242mm x 161mm |
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PRAISE FOR MICKEY SPILLANEMike Hammer is an icon of our culture.- The New York TimesA 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 SceneMax 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
Mickey Spillane
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
Max Allan Collins was named a Grand Master in 2017 by the Mystery Writers of America. He is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Life Achievement award. His graphic novel Road to Perdition became the Academy Award-winning film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks. His other comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy, Batman, and his own Ms. Tree and Wild Dog. He has completed fourteen Mike Hammer novels begun by the late Mickey Spillane, and his Hammer audio novel The Little Death with Stacy Keach won an Audie award. Recently he adapted the first of his Nathan Heller novels into a ten-part audio drama, True Noir.
For five years, he was sole licensing writer for TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, creating best-selling novels, graphic novels, and video games. His movie tie-in novels have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster.
Max has written and directed two documentaries and seven feature films, including the Lifetime movie Mommy (1996); and he scripted The Expert, an HBO World Premiere, as well as the film-festival favorite The Last Lullaby based on his innovative Quarry novels, which were also adapted as a TV series by Cinemax, for which Max wrote two scripts. Collins’ properties have also been optioned by major studios. His most recent self-scripted/directed indie films are Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder (2022), Blue Christmas (2023), and Death by Fruitcake (2024).
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