Murder Never Knocks (Mike Hammer Series)

by Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

Overview

Mike Hammer is a popular guy. At least with certain people. Several failed assassination attempts have got him riled, so apart from preventing the kidnapping of a famous New York socialite, he's hellbent on figuring out who wants him dead... someone who's desperate for the kill of his life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783291373
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	03/08/2016
Series:	Mike Hammer Series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
File size:	2 MB

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 is the author of Road to Perdition, the acclaimed graphic novel that inspired the movie, and of the multiple-award-winning Nathan Heller series of historical hardboiled mysteries. Max Allan Collins is one of most prolific and popular authors working in the field today. He is also the literary executor of Mickey Spillane.

Editorial Reviews

06/06/2016
In the gripping opening of Collins's ninth posthumous collaboration with Spillane (after 2015's Kill Me, Darling), a gun-wielding hit man confronts PI Mike Hammer in his Manhattan office. Fortunately, the gunman makes the typical bad guy mistake of talking long enough to give his quarry a chance. Subsequent assailants are no more successful in their attempts to take out Mike, who's baffled by the motive for the contract on his life. With money a concern, Mike puts that puzzle aside when he accepts a job to safeguard jewels at a bridal shower. Some of the prose is heavy-handed ("A cold front was sticking its tongue out at New York, tasting the edges of it, and—not liking what it found—spitting it back in a short, chilly blast") and Park Avenue appears to be just across the street from Central Park, but fans of the originals won't mind. Agent: Dominick Abel, Dominick Abel Literary Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"This novel supplies the goods: hard-boiled ambience, cynicism, witty banter, and plenty of tough-guy action." - Booklist Review

From the Publisher

In his latest adventure, set in the late 1960s, aging P.I. Mike Hammer is forced to take on a master hitman with a death wish. (Spoiler alert: Bad guys, be careful what you wish for.) Actor Stacy Keach, after decades of portraying Hammer in various media, has become one with the cynical loner detective. Keach's weary tone and raspy timbre are especially suited for this yarn in which Hammer is (mistakenly) treated like a has-been by cops, crooks, and lovers. Billed as a collaboration between the late Mickey Spillane and his literary executor, Max Allan Collins, the book is true to Spillane's hard-boiled writing style. Those who are new to the series may find Hammer's guilt-free killing to be borderline sociopathic, but diehard fans know that when it's Hammer-time, there's no room for political correctness. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

JUNE 2016 - AudioFile