A Long Time Dead

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With an introduction by Max Allan Collins The first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in history It starts with a few near accidents A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he s crossing the street A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive And when it comes to finishing something or someone nobody does it better than Hammer One of the twentieth century s bestselling American mystery authors, Mickey Spillane changed noir fiction forever when he loosed Mike Hammer on the world Now these eight short stories, collected and finished by Max Allan Collins, show that Spillane is still capable of redefining the genre The stories in A Long Time Dead have received numerous accolades, including an Edgar Award nomination, two International Association of Media and Tie in Writers Scribe Awards, and a Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award. Free Read Books A Long Time Dead Author Mickey Spillane – kino-fada.fr A Long Time Dead A Mike Hammer Casebook by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins is the first collection of Mike Hammer short stories Spillane, was an American crime novelist, many books featured his signature detective character, Mike Hammer More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally Collins has written novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and histori...The evening sky was gray and growling but I had left the trenchcoat behind and my suit coat was unbuttoned This was the kind of sketchy gin mill where I wanted easy access to the.45 under my arm The waterfront bouquet greeted me, salt air, grease, oil, sweat and dead fish drifting like a ghost with body odor If you needed to know anything about the harbor facilities stretching from the Battery to Grant s Tomb, or wanted a line on anybody in the National Maritime Union or the Teamsters, th The evening sky was gray and growling but I had left the trenchcoat behind and my suit coat was unbuttoned This was the kind of sketchy gin mill where I wanted easy access to the.45 under my arm The waterfront bouquet greeted me, salt air, grease, oil, sweat and dead fish drifting like a ghost with body odor If you needed to know anything about the harbor facilities stretching from the Battery to Grant s Tomb, or wanted a line on anybody in the National ...A great collection of Mike Hammer short stories.All of the stories are good, but some of them are just too similar to one another, hence, I dinged it a star Still, any Mike Hammer is a great read.GNAB I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley and Max Allen Collins in exchange for an honest review Thank you for sharing your work with me And this was a nice trip back into the world of Mike Hammer, a place I shared with my Dad many years ago I loved the idea of short stories Mickey Spillane didn t share them with us back in the day and the crispness that is his style was waiting there, in these tales I loved every one of them I had forgotten how often the kill s GNAB I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley and Max Allen Collins in exchange for an honest review Thank you for sharing your work with me And this was a nice trip back into the world of Mike Hammer, a place I shared with my Dad many years ago I loved the idea of short stories Mickey Spillane didn t share them with us back in the day and the crispness that is his style was waiting there, in these tales I loved every one o...If you like tough guy fiction, you can t do any better than Mickey Spillane s, Mike Hammer Max Allen Collins has dusted off and ,in some cases, finished these short stories that Spillane created before his death in 2006 If you have been a fan of Mike Hammer for many years, these stories will bring back pleasant memories of the heydays of hard hitting, fast shooting crime fiction If you haven t read Spillane before, you are in...Spillane and Collins have given us another taste of the Mike Hammer legend This time, Collins has found eight short stories that Spillane left behind incomplete They are presented here in chronological order and, though short, each is imbued with that frantic explosion of Hammer violence and hardboiled beauty that filled Spillane s original Hammer novels Each story is a fine read There is no filler It would be real difficult to choose one as my favorite Remarkably, as Collins hints in a he Spillane and Collins have given us another taste of the Mike Hammer legend This time, Collins has found eight short stories that Spillane left behind incomplete They are presented here in chronological order and, though short, e...A quick and enjoyable read and the eight short stories are just the right length to keep you entertained with very little slow or dragging dialog This book of stories is based on unfinished plots and story lines left by Mickey Spillane and completed by his mentor, Max Allan Collins It s unfortunate Spillane didn t writeshort stories featuring Mike Hammer, as Hammer is a good fit for the short story format The book makes you wantMike Hammer stories Thanks to Goodreads Giveaways A quick and enjoyable read and the eight short stories are just the right length to keep you entertained with very little slow...I don t usually like short stories, but these were pretty good.A good selection of short stories by Mickey Spillane about Mike Hammer, a private eye who solves crime in his own way I d forgotten how much I liked Mickey Spillane Really fun to read.Great collection Glad that I found and bought this book Great collection of short stories that made miss Mike Hammer a lot now

A Long Time Dead
  • 20 November 2018
  • Paperback
  • 246 pages
  • 1504036093
  • Mickey Spillane
  • A Long Time Dead