A Mickey Spillane Companion
A Mickey Spillane Companion

Author: Robert L. Gale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-05-30

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0313058482

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At one time, Mickey Spillane had authored seven of the top ten bestsellers in history, and may have been the most widely read author in the world. Spillane masterful storytelling grabs his readers with his first paragraph and leads them spellbound toward his climax. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Ross Macdonald, he remains one of America's greatest mystery writers. This book is a convenient guide to his works. An opening chronology lists the chief events in his life and career. The bulk of the volume presents several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on his writings. Lengthier entries summarize the plots of his works, including I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; Vengeance Is Mine!; and The Long Wait. Shorter entries identify his numerous characters, including his particularly memorable detective, Mike Hammer. Select entries list works for further reading, and the volume concludes with a brief bibliography.

A Mickey Spillane Companion
A Mickey Spillane Companion

Author: Robert L. Gale

Publisher: Greenwood

Published: 2003-05-30

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Hundreds of A-Z entries detail the plots and characters of one of America's greatest mystery writers.

My Gun Is Quick
My Gun Is Quick

Author: Mickey Spillane

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1950-06-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1101174455

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The second novel in Mickey Spillane's classic detective series starring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer. When a red-headed prostitue is killed in a hit-and-run "accident" Mike Hammer hunts down her killers and uncovers a powerful New York prostitution ring.

Me, Hood!
Me, Hood!

Author: Mickey Spillane

Publisher: St. Swithin Press

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781927551134

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The Body Lovers
The Body Lovers

Author: Mickey Spillane

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1967-09-30

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1101174579

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The teasing, transparent nighties were so shredded they barely covered the bodies of the murdered beauties. The blonde wore black. The redhead, green. And now someone was combing the city for the same number in white. Two strange slayings and a very frightened model set Mike Hammer on a chase through the world of high fashion and UN cocktail parties to Village bars and sleazy hotels. Snarling Hammer hits pay dirt when he dives underground to a secret sex cult, and busts open a group of degenerate, but highly eminent kick-killers. “A breathless mystery of violence, death and the macabre machinations of international operation.”—Savannah News “A blockbuster finish. Spillane has applied his Midas touch to another thriller.”—Florida Times-Union “Mike Hammer at his best.”—Charlotte Observer

Day of the Guns
Day of the Guns

Author: Mickey Spillane

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1969-11-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1101174536

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Spillane belts out another socker featuring counterspy Tiger Mann, who smashes into a Communist conspiracy involving UN delegates, CIA agents, ex-Nazi spies, a bold-bosomed, no-good beauty who’s so kissable and so killable . . . and winds it all up with a real gasper, with a Spillane-type switcheroo that will make mystery history. “Tiger Mann, U.S. counterspy, keeps cold war at bay with his torrid gun . . . Cordite and corpses abound.”—Saturday Review Syndicate “Simple, brutal and sexy. Like Mike Hammer, Spillane’s latest hero, Tiger Mann, is a law unto himself.”—Kansas City Star “You’ll thrill to the exploits of Tiger Mann as he recklessly pursues beautiful women and wicked spies, leaving a trail of havoc behind him. If you like Spillane, you’ll love this one.”—Hartford Courant

American Mystery and Detective Novels
American Mystery and Detective Novels

Author: Larry Landrum

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1999-05-30

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0313003270

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Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.

The Truman Gumshoes
The Truman Gumshoes

Author: J.K. Van Dover

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2022-01-31

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1476688028

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The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new directions. This book examines the work of the four most important writers of this second generation of hard-boiled fiction. It offers the first substantial literary analysis of the Max Thursday novels of Wade Miller and the Carney Wilde novels of Bart Spicer, and it develops new perspectives on the well-known Mike Hammer novels of Mickey Spillane and the Lew Archer novels of Ross Macdonald. A particular focus is upon the theme of the detective's status as a loner who succeeds in discovering truth and achieving justice because he works outside organized social structures.

Gumshoe America
Gumshoe America

Author: Sean McCann

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000-12-06

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780822325949

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DIVSees hard-boiled crime fiction in relation to a changing literary marketplace and as an arena for conflicts about citizenship, class culture, and democracy during the New Deal./div

Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]
Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection [2 volumes]

Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-07-26

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 0313345317

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This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.