Spillane's

"Where's Hall?" was Spillane's opening speech, and he spoke sharply and quickly.

The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

Links to this post worth reading • Max Allan Collins explains what it was like to complete Mickey Spillane's final Mike Hammer manuscript, true confession ... i love Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer stories.

Archive 2009-02-01 2009

Thursday, February 05, 2009 worth reading • Max Allan Collins explains what it was like to complete Mickey Spillane's final Mike Hammer manuscript, true confession ... i love Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer stories.

Bibliophile Bullpen 2009

Some timeless characters—including Ian Fleming's James Bond, Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne—have outlasted their creators, enduring as "zombie franchises" after literary estates contract new writers to keep the series going.

The (Really) Long Goodbye Alexandra Alter 2011

To cash in on Spillane's success, competing paperback lines sprang up, each trying to outdo the others with lurid, sexy, painted covers and titles like "Say It With Bullets" or "Kiss My Fist!"

Design Friday: 7 Sexy Crime Book Covers 2011

A trio of crime novels builds on past work: Anthony Horowitz's "The House of Silk," an authorized Sherlock Holmes mystery; "Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues," completed by Michael Brandman after Parker died last year; and the late Mickey Spillane's "The Consummata," finished by Max Allan Collins, a close friend.

Fall Books: `Wimpy Kid,' `Heroes Of Olympus' Among Tops 2011

Nothing remained but the other and empty car, which he could not see, but which he knew to be there, somewhere in that terrible gulf two hundred feet beyond Spillane's car.

The Banks of the Sacramento 2010

Back in the 1940s and 50s, there was an explosion in the popularity of paperback crime novels, triggered mainly by the success of Mickey Spillane's first Mike Hammer opus, "I, The Jury" You think Harry Potter's huge, or "The Da Vinci Code?"

Design Friday: 7 Sexy Crime Book Covers 2011

Spillane's father, who was revered as the "gentleman gangster," was gunned down in 1977 by the rival "Westies," the Hell's Kitchen Irish mob.

Bobby Spillane Dead: Irish Mobster Mickey Spillane's Son Falls To Death 2010

Jim McManus, Spillane's uncle and a longtime neighborhood power broker, called Spillane's death a "terribly sad accident."

Bobby Spillane Dead: Irish Mobster Mickey Spillane's Son Falls To Death 2010