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2) The big bang
Author
Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Publisher
Film Chest
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The film noir genre, which became a staple for movie fans during its heyday in the '40s & '50s, was based on a tough and gritty environment and revolved around those who lived in it. It was raw, without much margin for how things went down or who would end up surviving the fallout. Films stylized with elements of film noir have surfaced over the years and perhaps one of the best is the Mickey Spillane stories of Mike Hammer, which offered a more contemporary...
Publisher
Film Chest
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The film noir genre, which became a staple for movie fans during its heyday in the '40s & '50s, was based on a tough and gritty environment and revolved around those who lived in it. It was raw, without much margin for how things went down or who would end up surviving the fallout. Films stylized with elements of film noir have surfaced over the years and perhaps one of the best is the Mickey Spillane stories of Mike Hammer, which offered a more contemporary...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Robert Aldrich's adaptation of Mickey Spillaine's Mike Hammer novel was hailed by French new wave film critics as a masterpiece. Brutal and surrealistic, it has Hammer attempting to defend a woman from the men who want to kill her." -- Video Movie Guide.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Hammer is on the case, this time hunting the murderer of his old friend and bootlegger-turned-legit-businessman Packy Paragon. Already torn up by the disappearance of Velda, his beloved secretary, Mike Hammer carves a brutal path for vengeance. Drinking heavily, his relationships fraying, his behavior self-destructive, Hammer has to track down Paragon's secret ledger, with the names of every corrupt official in town. With deception everywhere,...
Author
Series
Mike Hammer mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Returning to 1970s New York to investigate an old friend's alleged suicide, Mike Hammer is drawn into a hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds and a beautiful missing woman who had been close to the victim in his final days.
17) The Goliath bone
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the midst of a violent snowstorm, Mike 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Hammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, United States Senator from New York, and Jamie's lovely, very smart wife, Nicole, considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being blackmailed, and Hammer is given a list of suspects who may be behind the threats to the Senator's contemplated White House bid. But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realizes there is more to this case than just a salacious tape....
19) Kiss me deadly
Series
Criterion collection volume 568
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mike Hammer, a private detective in Los Angeles, gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs, and after almost being killed himself, Mike tries to solve the murder.
20) Dig two graves
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye. Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Mike Hammer’s partner (both in life and the PI business), Velda Sterling, learns her father is not who she thought he is. Seeking to uncover her true, troubling heritage, Velda and Mike travel to Phoenix, Arizona—and...
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