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Mickey Spillane
(1918-2006)

Creator of the Hard-Boiled Detective Mike Hammer

Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his hard-boiled detective character, Mike Hammer. In 19 days, he wrote I, the Jury, which introduced Mike Hammer. With the 1947 hardcover and paperback the following year the novel sold six and a half million copies in the United States alone. 

Literary critics reacted negatively to the high content of sex and violence in his writing which would be considered tame by today's standards. In answer to his critics, he said, "Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar... If the public likes you, you're good."

His novel, The Erection Set (1972), was dedicated to his second wife who posed nude for the cover. Click Here

 

 

 

Some of his other Mike Hammer novels are:

• My Gun is Quick (1950)

• Vengeance is Mine! (1950)

• One Lonely Night  (1951)

• The Big Kill (1951)

• Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)

• The Girl Hunters (1962)

• The Snake (1964)

• The Twisted Thing (1966)

• The Body Lovers (1967)

• Survival... Zero! (1970)

• The Killing Man (1989)

• Black Alley (1996)

• Something's Down There (2004)

 

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