Mickey Spillane was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line. His writing style was characterized by short words, lightning transitions, gruff sex and violent endings. It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels. Starting with "I, the Jury," in 1947, Mr. Even his father, a Brooklyn bartender, called them "crud." Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews. Mickey Spillane One Lonely Night Mass Market Paperback Augby Mickey Spillane (Author) 69 ratings Book 4 of 26: Mike Hammer Kindle 6. Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote "I, the Jury." He initially envisioned it as a comic book called "Mike Danger," and when that did not go over, he took a week to reconfigure it as a novel.Įven the editor in chief of E.P. The book, in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist, went on to sell. Spillane's publisher, was skeptical of the book's literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action. The book, in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist, went on to sell more than 1 million copies.
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