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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
This column closes out all the Mickey Spillane I own that was still unread, so here are four books, including ones that feature characters other than Mike Hammer or Tiger Mann, although those guys’ shadows still weigh heavily on all of Spillane’s creations. THE ERECTION SET by Mickey Spillane — Let’s tackle the important issue of [...]
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Often, things are not as they first appear, and that is true in this story of kidnapping and subterfuge. Baby Shark is the nickname for Poolshark-turned-PI Kristin Van Dijk, the heroine of this hard-boiled 1950s mystery. A tough, gun-toting lady, she has been compared to Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, and the comparison is dead on. In [...]
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Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
He didn't write in "tough guy" jargon like Mickey Spillane. And he didn't mine the world of working folks for high art. What he did do was put the heart of America's blue collar citizens down on paper while it was still beating.
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
The Goliath Bone is the second of Spillane's posthumous novels completed by Max Allan Collins. The first was Dead Street , and as in that instance there's a smooth melding of plotting and style. It's hard to tell which parts were written by Spillane and which by Collins (though I can make a couple of guesses). This one marks the return to print of Spillane's most famous character, Mike Hammer. The...
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The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2008-10-08-spillane-goliath-bone_N.htm Spillane's friend hammers out the rest of author's novel By Carol Memmott, USA TODAY 10-8-8 Just before his death two years ago, crime writer Mickey Spillane called friend and author Max Allan Collins and asked him to finish a Mike Hammer novel he did not have the strength to complete. The Goliath Bone (Harcourt, $23), based...
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
If THE GOLIATH BONE proves to be the final outing for Mike Hammer (at least chronologically), then at least the iconic private investigator goes out with the proverbial bang. This one — the 14th for Hammer — finds Mickey Spillane’s hero still hard-boiled, even if his body’s going a little soft. He’s thinking about retirement, [...]
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
When crime novelist Mickey Spillane died in July 2006, at age 88, it might have spelled the end, too, for his hardest of hard-boiled private eyes, Mike Hammer. But Spillane was conscious of his legacy and concerned about the novels he had in progress at the time of his demise. So he left both in the hands of Iowa writer Max Allan Collins, his longtime friend and occasional collaborator, and the
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
"JAZZ noir" or "Mozart in the style of Mickey Spillane" are some of the evocative phrases that describe the work of Guy Barker. His The Amadeus Project is a jazz interpretation of Mozart's The Magic Flute, with the action rewritten by crime writer Robert Ryan and narrated by Michael Brandon. He brings the unique show to the Philharmonic Hall on September 25...
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
The blurb on the back cover says, "24 of the greatest crime comics ever," and that's close enough to the truth to let you know you gotta have the book. The names you're looking for (or at least the ones I was looking for) are all here: Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins, Dashiell Hammett, Alex Raymond, Will Eisner, Alex Toth, Jack Cole, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and many others. Some really classic...
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
(Editor’s note: For the second time, we’re offering a twofer addition to The Rap Sheet’s ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. The first pick for today--but No. 15 in this chain--comes from Max Allan Collins, a two-time Shamus Award winner for his Nate Heller detective series. Collins is already the author this year of Strip for Murder, the second in his Jack Starr
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Unlike the previous comics collections in the MAMMOTH line, THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF BEST CRIME COMICS features a ton of big names instead of unknowns and never-weres. That’s no slam against the others, but it’s amazing to see rare graphic work from the likes of Ed McBain, Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammett under one roof, [...]
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The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
And suddenly, after three months of unexplained quiet, August West’s well-executed site, Vintage Hardboiled Reads, is back, with a reopening reconsideration of Mickey Spillane’s 1951 Mike Hammer novel, One Lonely Night. Glad to see you up and running again, Mr. West.
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
My review of this story is over at Nasty, Brutish, and Short . The story's in EQMM's new Black Mask section in the August issue, which I recommend to you not only for that story but for contributions by Jan Burke, Nancy Pickard, Jorge Luis Borges, Brendan DuBois, O'Neil de Noux, and a number of others. The magazine's running out of Ed Hoch stories, I'm sorry to say, but there's a reprint in this issue...
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Fortress Of Fortitude (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
After Mickey Spillane’s famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) I, The Jury introduced the hardest-boiled private dick of all time, Golden-Age comic-book publishers jumped on the bandwagon with fierce abandon. While Comic Media’s Johnny Dynamite was easily the best of the Mike Hammer knock-offs, such characters as Ken Shannon (published by Quality) and Sam Hill [...]
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Book Fetish (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Dead Street follows Jack Stang, ex-NYPD cop, as he discovers his girlfriend from 20 years ago, Bettie, who supposedly died in an attempted kidnapping, is alive and living in Florida, sheltered in a police and firefighter retirement community. He learns...
