She started doing that and York went out into the office where Tulley was coming in with the doc trailing behind him.
“Undertaker’ll be here shortly,” Tulley said. “Really keepin’ him hoppin’ today.”
Miller was looking down at the dead, staring Zachary, on his back on the busted chair. “This one’ll perk Perkins up. Just right for his window.”
“I’ll leave you to it,” York said, in no mood for banter. He felt all talked out, though there was still talking left to do and no way to avoid it.
Walking over to the livery, where his gelding waited in its stall, York knew that he had not yet faced the day’s biggest challenge.
He still had a difficult call to make out to the Cullen place.
About the Authors
MICKEY SPILLANE and MAX ALLAN COLLINS collaborated on numerous projects, including twelve anthologies, three films, and the Mike Danger comic-book series.
Spillane was the best-selling American mystery writer of the twentieth century. He introduced Mike Hammer in I, the Jury (1947), which sold in the millions, as did the six tough mysteries that soon followed. The controversial P.I. has been the subject of a radio show, comic strip, and several television series, starring Darren McGavin in the 1950s and Stacy Keach in the ’80s and ’90s. Numerous gritty movies have been made from Spillane novels, notably director Robert Aldrich’s seminal film noir, Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and The Girl Hunters (1963), in which the writer played his own famous hero.
Collins has earned an unprecedented twenty-two Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for the novels True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1993) in his Nathan Heller series, and for “So Long, Chief,” a Mike Hammer short story begun by Spillane and completed by Collins. His graphic novel Road to Perdition is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film. A filmmaker in the Midwest, he has had half-a-dozen feature screenplays produced, including The Last Lullaby (2008), based on his innovative Quarry novels, also the basis of a current Cinemax TV series. As “Barbara Allan,” he and his wife, Barbara, write the “Trash ’n’ Treasures” mystery series (recently Antiques Swap).
Both Spillane (who died in 2006) and Collins received the Private Eye Writers life achievement award, the Eye.
Photo by Barbara Collins
MICKEY SPILLANE and MAX ALLAN COLLINS collaborated on numerous projects, including twelve anthologies, three films, and the Mike Danger comic book series.
Spillane was the best-selling American mystery writer of the twentieth century. He introduced Mike Hammer in I, the Jury (1947), which sold in the millions, as did the six tough mysteries that soon followed. The controversial P.I. has been the subject of a radio show, comic strip, and several television series; numerous gritty movies have been made from Spillane novels, notably director Robert Aldrich’s seminal film noir, Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and The Girl Hunters (1963), in which the writer played his famous hero.
Collins has earned an unprecedented nineteen Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations, winning for True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1993) in his Nathan Heller series, which includes the recent Ask Not. His graphic novel Road to Perdition is the basis of the Academy Award–winning film. A filmmaker in the Midwest, he has had half-a-dozen feature screenplays produced, including The Last Lullaby (2008), based on his innovative Quarry series. As “Barbara Allan,” he and his wife Barbara write the “Trash ‘n’ Treasures” mystery series (recently Antiques Con).
Both Spillane (who died in 2006) and Collins received individually the Private Eye Writers of America life achievement award, the Eye.
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