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Mickey Spillane

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Mickey Spillane


Born
in Brooklyn, New York City, The United States
March 09, 1918

Died
July 17, 2006

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Crime


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. Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews. Even his father, a Brooklyn bartender, called them "crud."

Mr. Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote "I, the Jury." He initially envisioned it as a comic book ca ...more

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Average rating: 3.73 · 31,976 ratings · 3,570 reviews · 314 distinct works • Similar authors
I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, ...
3.62 avg rating — 6,700 ratings — published 1947 — 166 editions
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The Mike Hammer Collection,...
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3.93 avg rating — 2,230 ratings — published 1950 — 9 editions
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My Gun Is Quick (Mike Hamme...
3.73 avg rating — 1,630 ratings — published 1950 — 84 editions
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Kiss Me, Deadly (Mike Hamme...
3.68 avg rating — 1,531 ratings — published 1952
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Vengeance is Mine (Mike Ham...
3.66 avg rating — 1,260 ratings — published 1950 — 81 editions
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One Lonely Night (Mike Hamm...
3.64 avg rating — 993 ratings — published 1951 — 77 editions
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The Big Kill (Mike Hammer, #5)
3.68 avg rating — 903 ratings — published 1951 — 79 editions
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Dead Street
3.49 avg rating — 875 ratings — published 2007 — 18 editions
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The Mike Hammer Collection,...
4.05 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 1953 — 10 editions
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The Killing Man (Mike Hamme...
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Series by Mickey Spillane

I, the Jury My Gun Is Quick Vengeance is Mine One Lonely Night The Big Kill Kiss Me, Deadly The Girl Hunters
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The Legend of Caleb York The Big Showdown The Bloody Spur Last Stage to Hell Junction Hot Lead, Cold Justice Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek
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Day of the Guns Bloody Sunrise The Death Dealers The By-Pass Control
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hamm... Mickey Spillane's Mike Hamm... Mickey Spillane's Mike Hamm...
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Colección 80 años Marvel 01... Colección 80 años Marvel 02...
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“The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.”
― Mickey Spillane
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“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.”
― Mickey Spillane
tags: writing, writing-craft, writing-process
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“I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.”
― Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill
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