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Mickey Spillane

    March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006

    Mickey Spillane emerged as one of the world's most popular mystery writers, specializing in visceral tales of revenge often featuring his signature alcoholic gumshoe, Mike Hammer. His distinctive style employed short, punchy sentences, rapid scene shifts, and a raw portrayal of sex and violence, leading to famously grim conclusions. Despite often receiving scathing reviews for its gritty realism and unapologetic approach, Spillane's work resonated with millions of readers globally. His narratives delved into the darker aspects of society, offering a potent blend of action and moral ambiguity that defined his unique contribution to the genre.

    Mickey Spillane
    The Long Wait
    Everybody's Watching Me
    Manhunt, March 1953
    Mike Hammer: Killing Town
    The Shrinking Island: Three Novels by Mickey Spillane
    Mike Hammer - Kiss Her Goodbye
    • Mike Hammer - Kiss Her Goodbye

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      A classic Mike Hammer story from the New York Times bestselling authors Max Allan Collins and the master of noir Mickey Spillane, featuring a brand-new, never before seen, alternative ending. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, Mike Hammer learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral’s doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds and for the mysterious woman who had been close to Doolan in his final days. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillane’s classic One Lonely Night.

      Mike Hammer - Kiss Her Goodbye
      4.5
    • This collection features thrilling adventures centered around classic boyhood escapades, crafted by the renowned mystery writer Mickey Spillane. Known for his gripping storytelling, Spillane brings to life engaging characters and suspenseful plots that capture the essence of youthful exploration and excitement. Readers can expect a blend of action, intrigue, and timeless themes that resonate with both young audiences and those young at heart.

      The Shrinking Island: Three Novels by Mickey Spillane
      5.0
    • Mike Hammer: Killing Town

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      THE LOST FIRST MIKE HAMMER THRILLER! The lost book that begins the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition. "When someone frames me for rape and murder, I take it personal..." Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he arrives to a nasty surprise; he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's fate looks bleak until a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles--daughter of Senator Charles--gives him an unexpected alibi. But there is a price for clearing his name: he is to marry her. Why would Melba jump in to save a man she has never met before? And, more to the point, where is the real murderer?

      Mike Hammer: Killing Town
      4.3
    • Manhunt, March 1953

      • 150 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      This replica of the March 1953 issue of MANHUNT digest magazine features a collection of thrilling stories from notable authors in the crime and mystery genre. Highlights include Mickey Spillane's "EVERYBODY'S WATCHING ME" and Richard S. Prather's "THE SLEEPER CAPER," alongside works by Leslie Charteris, Craig Rice, and others. Each story offers a unique narrative filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists, showcasing the vibrant storytelling of mid-20th century crime fiction.

      Manhunt, March 1953
      4.0
    • Everybody's Watching Me

      • 140 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      In the midst of a deadly power struggle, Joe Boyle becomes an unwitting messenger in a dangerous game of vengeance. Tasked with delivering a threatening note from the enigmatic killer Vetter, Boyle is thrust into a chaotic world where loyalty is fleeting and survival is uncertain. As he navigates the treacherous landscape of crime and betrayal, the stakes rise, revealing the dark underbelly of the criminal underworld and the lethal consequences of his involvement.

      Everybody's Watching Me
      4.0
    • After killing the son of cattle baroness Victoria Drummond, Sheriff Caleb York, forced to do her bidding, is caught in a dangerous range war between the love of his life and the cattle queen that is guaranteed to be a bloodbath

      Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek
      4.4
    • Hot Lead, Cold Justice

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Legendary crime writer Mickey Spillane's celebrated tin-star hero Caleb York returns in the explosive Western saga by New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins. This time, the feared New Mexico gunhand unloads his .44 in a brewing storm brutal enough to freeze the blood. A killer blizzard sweeping across the Southwest threatens the livelihoods of everyone in the town of Trinidad. But it's two gunshots that fell Sheriff Caleb York's unlucky deputy. As sure as the blood pooling in the snow, York knows it was a case of mistaken identity. The bullets were meant for him. It's the first nasty step in a plan rustled up by former Quantrill's Raider Luke "Burn 'Em" Burnham--eliminate the law, corral a team to rob a bank in booming Las Vegas, New Mexico, then lay low. With a treacherous local merchant for cover, and York out of the picture, all they'll have to do is wait for the calm. Then they get wind of one little hitch: not only is York still alive, but he's gunning for justice--and revenge. As the winter weather bears down, the stir-crazy outlaws aim to finish what they started--take down York and disappear into the blinding storm. As a chilling cat-and-mouse begins, York isn't about to let Burnham and his damnable gang get away. It'd be a cold day in hell if he did.

      Hot Lead, Cold Justice
      4.2
    • Mike Hammer - Masquerade for Murder

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hard-boiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times bestseller Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder.

      Mike Hammer - Masquerade for Murder
      4.2
    • "Counter-espionage ace Tiger Mann battles Russian agents and seductively dangerous women in a race against time to find the missing genius who wired our ICBM circuit with a by-pass...with one little button that can destroy the entire U.S. missile system and leave the country defenseless against an enemy nuclear attack!"

      The By-Pass Control
      3.0
    • Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.

      Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves
      3.9
    • Mike Hammer - Baby, It's Murder

      • 72 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Set against a backdrop of 1970 Long Island, the narrative follows Mike Hammer as he navigates a personal crisis involving his partner's younger sister, Willa, who becomes entangled with drugs and two competing suitors. As Hammer grapples with his disdain for drug dealers, he embarks on a violent quest for justice. The story weaves between past and present, culminating in a funeral that reveals shocking truths about Hammer's legacy and his final confrontation with the darkness he has faced throughout his career.

      Mike Hammer - Baby, It's Murder
      3.8
    • Lady, go die!

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a Long Island beach town. Hammer becomes embroiled in the mystery of a missing well-known New York party girl who lives nearby. When the woman turns up naked - and dead - astride the statue of a horse in the town square, Hammer feels compelled to investigate.

      Lady, go die!
      4.0
    • Mike Hammer: The Hammer Strikes Again

      Five Complete Mike Hammer Novels - Unabridged

      • 767 pages
      • 27 hours of reading

      Mickey Spillane's 5 Novels in 1.Included in this hardcover book: "One Lonely Night""The Snake""The Twisted Thing""The Body Lovers" "Survival...Zero!"

      Mike Hammer: The Hammer Strikes Again
      3.9
    • Kiss Her Goodbye

      A Mike Hammer Novel

      Mike Hammer stalks disco-era drug-runners and a fortune in Nazi diamonds in this two-fisted new Spillane novel.

      Kiss Her Goodbye
      3.6
    • I, the Jury

      My Gun is Quick. Vengeance is Mine!

      • 513 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      "Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillanes Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing historyan innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader."-- provided by publisher

      I, the Jury
      3.7
    • The Last Cop Out

      • 190 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      No Mike Hammer, no Tiger Mann, and a much more conventional story this time about Gillian Burke, a cop dismissed for his maverick methods, now asked to help the Force in its struggle against the Family (old Papa Menes; gladiator Mark Shelby; and Verdon, a ""first class funeral director. He makes his own clients""). This is so straight that Burke (you'll like him) is even romancing a girl. But then of course there are a good many of the sadosexual special effects (the man who bottles the belly buttons he collects) which contribute to Mickey's usual Finn.

      The Last Cop Out
      3.5
    • The Killing Man

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Back after a nineteen-year hiatus, Mike Hammer discovers a dead man sitting in his office chair and is off on an adventure involving a mysterious toolbox, a drug ring, two women, and the CIA.

      The Killing Man
      3.5
    • Mickey Spillane's tough-talking, brawling, skirt-chasing private detective Mike Hammer returns to comics in this thrilling noir series, based on an original plot by Mickey Spillane, written by Max Allan Collins.

      Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Night I Died
      3.2
    • A tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans!

      The Snake
    • The Erection Set introduces Mickey Spillane's greatest hero yet--Dogeron Kelly, a walking bomb of a man who explodes into block-busting action at the drop of a gun or a lift of a skirt as he goes after a multi-million-dollar mob with vengeance on his mind and burning hate in his heart.

      The Erection Set
    • A tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans!

      The Death Dealers
    • In this book Hammer's secretary, Velda, has been missing for seven years, but she's still alive if Hammer can reach in time.

      The Girl Hunters
    • A tough-guy mystery to please even the most bloodthirsty of fans!The Delta Factor. A fist-slamming, sex-snarling thriller by the creator of Mike Hammer and Tiger Mann. Mickey Spillane slings Morgan the raider, super-crook turned U.S. Agent, into a one-man mission against the hoodlum army of a Latin dictator. His target: a dungeon cell of a torture place; his sidekick, a scorching babe who says no if it kills her...Watch Morgan: the new, gut-slugging, gutter-rough hero as only MICKEY makes 'em.

      The Delta Factor
    • Sexbomber

      • 284 pages
      • 10 hours of reading
      Sexbomber
      5.0
    • Privatdetektiv Mike Hammer verschlägt es in den Kalten Krieg. Ein junges Mädchen fällt ihm auf der Flucht vor einem kommunistischen Agenten in die Arme und begeht Selbstmord. In ihrer abgerissenen Manteltasche findet er eine grüne Karte mit abgeschnittenen Ecken. §Der unbescholtene Politiker Lee Deamer wird eines Mordes angeklagt, den er nicht begangen hat. Auch bei diesem Mordopfer taucht die mysteriöse grüne Karte auf. §Geheime Dokumente zum Bau einer Atombombe gelangen in die Hände der Kommunisten. Mike Hammers Wege kreuzen sich mit Ethel Brighton, einer Roten mit Nerz und guten Beziehungen zu den oberen Zehntausend. Die Nation ist in Aufruhr, und Mike Hammer stellt sich in einem atemberaubenden Finale den Verschwörern.

      Regen in der Nacht
      4.0
    • "Counter-espionage ace Tiger Mann battles Russian agents and seductively dangerous women in a race against time to find the missing genius who wired our ICBM circuit with a by-pass...with one little button that can destroy the entire U.S. missile system and leave the country defenseless against an enemy nuclear attack!"

      Gli elefanti. Narrativa: Il bottone della morte
      4.0
    • Tre romanzi di Mike Hammer

      • 788 pages
      • 28 hours of reading

      Sono pupe, pallottole e colpi in canna. Sono gli occhi neri e i nasi rotti dei gialli con protagonista Mike Hammer, veri hard-boiled, massicci e politicamente scorretti. Mickey Spillane, sceneggiatore di fumetti, ha creato un originale che ha ispirato troppi imitatori. Si diceva usasse la macchina da scrivere come una mitraglietta, producendo una cartella ogni cinque minuti, con spogliarelliste come pin-up per le sue copertine. In una nuova traduzione, la prima edizione integrale mai pubblicata in Italia, risorgono tre romanzi: Ti ucciderò (I, the Jury), La vendetta è mia (Vengeance is Mine!) e Una ragazza e una pistola (My Gun is Quick). Questa infausta trinità dimostra che uno è troppo poco e un quarto ucciderebbe. Quentin Tarantino li esalta, James Ellroy ne è entusiasta e Charles Bukowski li considerava esempi di sanguigna letteratura da strada. Negli anni Cinquanta scandalizzarono, ma oggi sono qui per farsi (ri)scoprire come classici della letteratura popolare. Mickey Spillane è tornato e non si leverà di torno facilmente.

      Tre romanzi di Mike Hammer
      3.7
    • Śmiertelny pocałunek

      • 242 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Women and the Web Friends and enemies alike warned Mike Hammer to drop his feud with the dread Mafia, the sinister international crime network which spread its slimy web over a taxi dancer, a Central Park psychiatrist, a Yonkers millionaire and his impossibly beautiful sister, an ex-pug and a blonde with hair like snow. But Mike was thirsting to revenge the murder of a satin-skinned Viking. So, single-handed, he defied police and F.B.I., determined to even his personal score with the head man of the Mafia. Deprived of his gun by the Feds, battling thugs from Manhattan penthouses to the Bowery, maddened by the evil around him, he pits himself against a notorious collection of organized criminals and pursues justice to a slam-bang finish.

      Śmiertelny pocałunek
      3.4
    • Mike Hammer liebt die Frauen und hat ein großes Herz. In einer Kneipe trifft er eine angeschlagene Schöne der Nacht und gibt ihr Geld für neue Klamotten und ein neues Leben. Leider ist sie am nächsten Morgen tot. Mike glaubt nicht an Selbstmord, im Gegensatz zu Pat Chambers von der New Yorker Mordkommission. Ohne Auftrag, aber mit Elan, begibt sich der Privatdetektiv in einen Dschungel aus feinen Herren und organisierter Kriminalität, die aus Prostitution ein lukratives Geschäft gemacht haben. Der Ritter der Straßenmädchen wird häufig zusammengeschlagen, findet jedoch Trost bei Lola und seiner leicht eifersüchtigen Supersekretärin Velda. Am Ende bringt er alles wieder in Ordnung, denn auf Mike Hammer ist Verlass. Mickey Spillane, geboren 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, arbeitete als Verkäufer und Comic-Texter. Im Zweiten Weltkrieg war er Fluglehrer für Kampfflieger. 1946 gelang ihm mit seinem ersten Krimi der internationale Durchbruch. Mittlerweile ist er mit über 200 Millionen Auflagen der meistverkaufte und meistübersetzte Krimiautor. Bei Rotbuch erschien Ich der Richter 1996 in einer überarbeiteten Übersetzung. Weitere Titel aus Spillanes „Klassischer Periode“ folgen bald. „Gut gegen Böse, das Böse kommt weg, peng, basta bingo.“

      Die Töchter der Nacht
      3.0
    • 20 Jahre lebt der New Yorker Ex-Cop Jack Stang mit der Erinnerung an den Tod seiner Freundin. Sie kam bei einer versuchten Entführung ums Leben.Doch was, wenn sie in Wahrheit gar nicht tot ist? Wenn sie überlebt, aber ihr Gedächtnis und alles andere, was sie besaß, verloren hat? Alles bis auf ihre Feinde?

      Das Ende der Straße
      2.7
    • Tod mit Zinsen

      • 281 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Mike Hammer muß den Mord an einem alten Army-Kumpel rächen und gegen zwei Generationen einer Mafia-Familie antreten. Nach einer Schießerei im New Yorker Hafen wird er nur durch ein Wunder gerettet. Und als hätte er damit nicht genug, muß er auch noch einen Koffer mit sage und schreibe 89 Milliarden Dollar finden, bevor die Gangster das Geld zu fassen und Hammer zu Gesicht kriegen .

      Tod mit Zinsen
      2.0
    • Piccolo mostro

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      "Di musica come quella non ne aveva mai scritta nessuno". Chi suona sorprendendo Mike Hammer è il "piccolo mostro" Ruston York, un ragazzino che è un genio assoluto in ogni campo, dalla musica alla chimica. Il suo ricchissimo padre, lo scienziato Rudolph York, ha dedicato tutta la sua vita a sviluppare l'intelligenza del figlio, ed è un colpo durissimo quando qualcuno gli rapisce il genio in miniatura. York incarica Mike Hammer di ritrovare Ruston, e dal quel momento Mike si trova nel labirinto di un'indagine sempre più sanguinosa ed inquietante.

      Piccolo mostro
      3.2
    • Il club del vizio

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      Un classico dell'hard-boiled anni Sessanta anticipa uno dei temi più sconvolgenti di questi ultimi anni. Mike Hammer è incaricato di indagare sulla scomparsa di un'aspirante modella e imbocca un percorso molto complicato, uno strano labirinto che parte da grandi atelier della moda per finire nelle difesissime dimore di ambigui personaggi mediorientali piuttosto in vista all'ONU. Ma l'atroce verità, quella che scatena la pietà umana e il furore di giustizia di Mike è la scoperta del club del Vizio: quel vizio che non ha appagamento se non nella morte.

      Il club del vizio
      3.1