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by Mickey Spillane (Author) "I shook the rain from my hat and walked into the room ..." (more)
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Mickey Spillane's first three Mike Hammer mysteries I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; and Vengeance Is Mine! are collected in The Mike Hammer Collection: Volume 1, with an introduction by Shamus Award-winner Max Allan Collins, who finds "[s]omething personal...at the heart of every Spillane novel." Hammer is a foul-mouthed, violent vigilante and a sucker for beautiful damsels in distress, some of whom pull the wool over his eyes. With his trusty, sexy assistant Velda keeping him honest (sort of), he exacts revenge on racketeers, cheats and murderers.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.



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SEX AND VIOLENCE. Mickey Spillane, the tough-as-nails, bestselling publishing phenomenon knew what readers wanted. Now he's really letting them have it...times three.

MIKE HAMMER-Spillane's ultimate creation, the original no-holds-barred private eye who became homicide's hottest anti-hero.

THE MIKE HAMMER COLLECTION, VOLUME 1-the first-ever trade anthology of Spillane's masterpieces of literary mayhem. In one exciting collection, here are the first three novels featuring legendary detective Mike Hammer.

I, the Jury
My Gun is Quick
Vengeance is Mine!

Mickey Spillane is a master. (The New York Times)

Mickey Spillane is the living master of the hard-boiled mystery. (Detecting Men)
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3.0 out of 5 stars I, Witness, Jul 15 2004
By Peter Reeve (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Here's food for thought: Mickey Spillane, known for the high sex and violence content of his stories, is a long-time Jehovah's Witness. He grew up in a tough neighborhood and, if he had come knocking on my door trying to convert me, I would have been careful how I argued with him. In truth, what seemed shocking at the time seems almost puritanical today. His hero, Mike Hammer, continually declines offers of sex from beautiful women on the grounds that it would be morally wrong. His is an Old Testament, vengeful, eye-for-an-eye morality, doling out death as the wages of sin. Even the title of one of these stories, "Vengeance is Mine", has a biblical ring to it.

Hammer was based on a comic book character Spillane had created, and the stories have the simplicity, directness and lack of literary pretension that one would expect from such a pedigree. Spillane found a marketable formula and stuck with it and all three of these stories are similar in many ways. The post-war reading public wanted a hero who righted wrongs simply and neatly, with fist and gun and no due process. Notice that all three titles have a first-person pronoun in them; Spillane invites you to become your fantasy macho hero for a while.

Racier stories and more skilful plotting are now available from other authors, but Spillane is still worth a look, if only to see how the genre evolved after Chandler and Hammett. One reason his work has survived (although he is not very widely read now) is the success of the excellent film noir adaptation of "Kiss Me Deadly", the star of which, Ralph Meeker, was a very fine actor. Watch that movie, read at least one story from this collection, then move on to better things.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Aug 15 2003
Mickey Spillane does not get the credit he deserves. These novels are awesome. There is never a dull moment, and the writing is incredible. Spillane does not try to impress you with complicated verbiage to prove he is a good writer. He just writes great stories. People make a big fuss about the sex(there really isn't much) and the violence(plenty of it) in his stories, but this has nothing to do with the real power of his writing. You can see the action and you feel like you know the characters, and unlike the cardboard characters in the novels of some other hardboiled writers, you actually care about these characters. Despite the fact that Hammer is brutally violent and never politically correct, you get a sense that he is at the core a good man, even a hero. This is the real draw of these stories. Mike Hammer is the man that stops at nothing to make sure justice gets done, even if he has to pile up some bodies to get it done. The fact that every woman he meets wants to sleep with him is a nice fantasy too. I highly reccomend this book, volume 2 , and any other Spillane books you can get your hands on. You won't be dissappointed.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Hilariously over-the-top, but very readable., Jul 25 2003
Mickey Spillane was a unique writer who imbued his hardboiled mystery novels with an over-the-top grittiness that often toed the line between light-hearted pulp fiction and dime-novel trash. His stalwart hero, Mike Hammer, is the personification of the tough guy detective who is tough simply because he probably can't be anything else.

Several of these other reviewers are quite disturbing in their assumptions: Mickey Spillane invented the hard-boiled detective genre with Mike Hammer? How untrue! Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett are the true grandfathers of the hard-boiled detective story and their literary efforts remain timeless. That being said, Spillane is a colorful writer who warrants reading by rabid fans of the genre.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Babes, Blackmail and Murder
Very good treatment of what i would describe as the ultimate in hardboiled fiction. The first three novels of Spillane's anti hero keep one reading late into the night. Read more
Published on Mar 9 2003 by Dr. Freeman

4.0 out of 5 stars Spillane Still a crowd pleaser
Mickey Spillane wrote detective novels half a century ago. It's well-known that he was not very well-liked by the literary community. Read more
Published on Feb 22 2003 by David W. Nicholas

3.0 out of 5 stars The Pioneer
Would you believe that, although I am past the age of 60, I had never gotten around to reading Mickey Spillane until this attractive collection caught my eye? Read more
Published on Nov 30 2001 by Rory Coker

4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping mystery anthology
Nowadays Spillane's descriptions of sex and violence may seem a bit less shocking, but his understanding of the mystery genre is remarkable. The only caveat? Read more
Published on Oct 26 2001 by Steven Mecca

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing How Good!!!
I have a B.A. degree in English literature, and I rarely read novels anymore. Being 46 years old and never having read a Spillane novel, I was always interested in his popular... Read more
Published on Sep 26 2001 by Timothy Kovacik

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard-boiled Mystery At Its Very Best
In this first installment of "The Mike Hammer Collection", Mickey Spillane's hero leads us through a trio of fast-paced, hard-hitting and thoroughly enjoyable stories... Read more
Published on Sep 17 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT READING!
This is Mickey Spillane at his very best! This master of mystery grabs the reader and doesn't let go. No writers today can weave stories in the way Spillane does. Read more
Published on Aug 9 2001 by Avid reader

5.0 out of 5 stars Confirms Spillane's Brilliance
As a contemporary mystery writer with my debut novel in initial release, I have often heard Mickey Spillane and his Mike Hammer character scoffed at by the writers of today. Read more
Published on Jul 24 2001 by Kent Braithwaite

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