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Mike Hammer--Murder, My Love

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by Max Allan Collins


  M.A.C.

  Killing Town*

  I, the Jury

  Lady, Go Die!*

  The Twisted Thing (published 1966, written 1949)

  My Gun Is Quick

  Vengeance Is Mine!

  One Lonely Night

  The Big Kill

  Kiss Me, Deadly

  Kill Me, Darling*

  The Girl Hunters

  The Snake

  The Will to Kill*

  The Big Bang*

  Complex 90*

  Murder Never Knocks*

  The Body Lovers

  Survival… Zero!

  Kiss Her Goodbye*

  The Killing Man

  Murder, My Love*

  Black Alley

  King of the Weeds*

  The Goliath Bone*

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  THE GOLIATH BONE

  MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS

  In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archaeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girlfriend, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and K.G.B. agents of his past—Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.

  “Hard-boiled as hell and a fitting tribute to one of the masters of the craft.”

  Independent on Sunday

  “Entertaining and well-crafted. Faster than a Hollywood chariot chase. Fans will not be disappointed.”

  Sunday Express

  “A sharp, savvy piece of writing and it’s good to have P.I. Mike Hammer back.”

  Sunday Telegraph

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  THE WILL TO KILL

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  Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of an ex-police captain, who spent the last years of his life as a butler to a millionaire—also now deceased.

  Were both master and servant murdered? Captain Pat Chambers thinks so. But to prove it Hammer must travel to upstate New York to investigate the dead man’s family, all of whom have a motive for murder.

  “Fans of the originals are likely to be satisfied.”

  Publishers Weekly

  “Spillane has said that true heroes never die, and the same undoubtedly can be said of his greatest creation, Mike Hammer.”

  Criminal Element

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  MURDER NEVER KNOCKS

  MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS

  A failed attempt on his life by a contract killer gets Mike Hammer riled up. But it also lands him an unlikely job: security detail for a Hollywood producer having a party to honor his beautiful fiancée, a rising Broadway star. But it’s no walk in the park, as Hammer finds violence following him and his beautiful P.I. partner Velda into the swankiest of crime scenes.

  In the meantime, Hammer is trying to figure out who put the hitman on him. Is there a connection with the death of a newsstand operator who took a bullet meant for him? A shadowy figure looking for the kill of his life?

  “This novel supplies the goods: hard-boiled ambience, cynicism, witty banter, and plenty of tough-guy action.”

  Booklist Review

  “Max Allan Collins was an ideal choice to continue the bloody doings of Hammer.”

  The Washington Times

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  KILL ME, DARLING

  MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS

  Mike Hammer’s secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the N.Y.P.D. Vice Squad. What’s more, Mike’s pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn.

  Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami, where he enlists the help of a horse-faced newspaperman and a local police detective. But can they find Velda in time? And what is the connection between the murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Mike’s ex turning gun moll in Florida?

  “[O]ne of his best, liberally dosed with the razor-edged prose and violence that marked the originals.” Publishers Weekly

  “For Mike Hammer’s fans—yes, there are still plenty of them out there—it’s a sure bet.” Booklist

  “It’s vintage peak-era Spillane so seamless it’s hard to see where the Spillane ends and the Collins picks up.” Crime Time

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  KING OF THE WEEDS

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  As his old friend Captain Pat Chambers of Homicide approaches retirement, Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer targeting only cops. A killer Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed on new, apparently indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders if, somehow, this seemingly placid, very odd old man might be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental or by natural causes.

  At the same time Hammer and Velda are dealing with the fallout—some of it mob, some of it federal government—over the 89-billion-dollar cache the detective is (rightly) suspected of finding not long ago…

  “Collins’ witty, hardboiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.”

  Entertainment Weekly

  “Another terrific Mike Hammer caper that moves non-stop like a flying cheetah across the reader’s field of imagination.”

  Pulp Fiction Reviews

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