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The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, 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 NYPD Vice Squad What s , 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 Read Mike Hammer – kino-fada.fr 20 in the Mike Hammer series 7 completed by Max Allan Collins after the death of author Mickey Spillane This novel was completed from a manuscript fragment that was apparently intended to be set in 1954 as a follow up to Kiss Me Deadly 1952 , as it turns out it was an early variant of The Girl Hunters 1962 the first Mike Hammer novel to follow Kiss Me Deadly It has all the Spillane trademarks, snappy dialogue, violent action and gender challenged villains.Mike Hammer series 1954, four 20 in the Mike Hammer series 7 completed by Max Allan Collins after th...This is the first Mike Hammer novel I have ever read, and I enjoyed it very much This novel takes place in 1954, and Mr Hammer has received a handwritten note from his office and private investigator associate in addition to fianc e Velda Sterling, telling him goodbye Hammer goes off on a two week drunk, before he begins to realize that there isto this than it appears Apparently, Velda is in Miami with a lowlife who is reputed to have ties with organized crime He also finds out tha This is the first Mike Hammer novel I have ever read, and I enjoyed it very much This novel takes place in 1954, and Mr Hammer has received a handwritten note from his office and private investigator associate in addition to fianc e Velda Sterling, telling him goodbye Hammer goes off on a two week drunk, before he begins to realize that there isto this than it appears Apparently, Velda is in Miami with a lowlife who is reputed to have ties w...Collins really surprised me with the ending Didn t see that twist coming Very good story and a must read for any Hard boiled fan This combination of Spillane starting a story in the long ago, 1954 this time and Collins finishing the story 60 years later has worked surprisingly well and I hope there are manypartially completed Spillane manuscripts out there waiting for Max Allan Collins to complete Usually when another writer, no matt...Max Allan Collins had less to work with this time around in completing Spillane s Hammer novel About half the previous works and a first chapter used for another published novel The Girl Hunters Reworking the beginning with another fragment, Collins has given us a superb story that finds Mike on another bender because Velda walked out on him four months previous with a one word note Good bye It takes Pat Chambers to clue him in after Mike learns of the murder of an old cop friend of the b Max Allan Collins had less to work with this time around in completing Spillane s Hammer novel About half the previous works and a first chapter used for another p...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here Mike Hammer in bite sized chunks Collins is atelegraphic prose stylist He gets the atmosphere of Spillane right, but things feelcompressed No musings just shorter paragraphs with respect to something Spillane would have written At this point, soon there will beSpillane Collins collaborations than Hammer novels writte...I am a huge fan of both Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins Once again Collins did a superb job of fleshing out an old Spillane manuscript and transporting his readers to Florida in 1954 It was honestly hard to know which great Mike Hammer line was Spillane s and which was ...3.5 starsHard hitting Action packed Pulpy Awesome This is the twentieth Mike Hammer novel, the first thirteen published in Spillane s lifetime and the last seven a collaborative effort between Spillane s notes and outlines and Collins work This one may beCollins than Spillane, but, in the end, does it really matter who wrote which chapters It s a brand new Mike Hammer novel As long as it has Mike and Velda and Pat in it and as long as Mike doesn t take any nonsense from any two bit punk, i Hard hitting Action packed Pulpy Awesome This is the twentieth Mike Hammer novel, the first thirteen published in Spillane s lifetime and the last seven a collaborative effort between Spillane s notes and outlines and Collins work This one may beCollins than Spillane, but, in the end, does it really matter who wrote which chapters It s a brand new Mike Hammer novel As long as it has Mike and Velda and Pat in it and as long as Mike doesn t take any nonsense from any two bit punk, it is a must read.This one takes Mike and Velda back to 1954 and the action whisks Mike and the readers all the way to South Florida.And it is dripping with pulpy goodness right from the first page Mike s been drinking steadily...When Velda Sterling walks out on him without a word and a former associate of theirs on the Vice Squad ends up dead, a broken Mike Hammer fights his way back from the edge and follows the trail to the beaches of Miami, where peeling through the gangster rivalries reveals the motive behind his friend s murder, as well as its connection to Velda s current activities Another buried treasure left behind by Mickey Spillane and unearthed by Max Allan C...Inheriting a mass of unfinished Mickey Spillane manuscripts, Max Collins has undertaken to somehow finish them, completing the work the author left unfinished at his death in 2006 This novel, set in Miami during 1954, begins with Mike Hammer reeling from a four month long bender, the result of his secretary girlfriend having left him with a note effectively saying so long A shadow of himself, Mike stops drinking and smoking , if you can believe it, and drives to Florida to win Velda back.In Inheriting a mass of unfinished Mickey Spillane manuscripts, Max Collins has undertaken to somehow finish them, completing the work the author left unfinished at his death in 2006 This novel, set in Miami during 1954, begins with Mike Hammer reeling from a four month long bender, the result of his secretary girlfriend having left him with a note effectively saying so long A shadow of himself, Mike stops drinking and smoking , if you can believe it, and drives to Florida to win Velda back.Instead, he discovers she is hooked up with a notorious gangster The question, of course, is Is she acting undercover to expose the person she s playing footsies with, or has she literally become another person Meanwhile, Mike is sought out by five mafia bosses to kill the man she is living with Remember, this is Miami in the 1950 s, pre Castro So there is an element of ...

Mike Hammer
  • 14 November 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 241 pages
  • 1783291389
  • Mickey Spillane
  • Mike Hammer