Not a shortage of money, but the opposite: too much. The sort of money that brings the envious and the scheming clustering like flies around offal: nieces, nephews, cousins The staff has its peculiarities, too: the chauffeur is an ex-con; the governess formerly a featured act in strip clubs from New York to Miami; and the secretary has a well-developed taste in other women.
Yes, it's some household - and not all that welcoming of PI Mike Hammer, not when the kid has been kidnapped and everyone's a suspect. The staff has its peculiarities, too: the chauffeur is an ex-con; the governess formerly a featured act in strip clubs from New York.
Find out for yourself in this first-time-ever omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery Amidst the struggles of war-torn Singapore, the chaos of the Malayan Emergency and the violence of the Maria Hertogh race riots, a journey into the past brings a chilling discovery for Eurasian Annie Collins, who returns to Singapore seeking her lost baby.
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Search this site. Building for Peace: U. Army Engineers in Europe, U. Download Bentley'S Miscellany. Download Got a Revolution! Want to Read. Buy on Amazon. Rate this book. Mike Hammer 9 The Twisted Thing. Mickey Spillane. Cover artist: Lima de Freitas This was some household. The kid was a genius, the father a scientist of international repute. Money was problem. Not shortage of money but the opposite: too much. The sort of money that brings the envious and the scheming clustering like flies round a pile of ripe offal: nieces, nephews, cousins - a family of mean minds and gross appetites.
The hired help had its peculiarities too: the chauffeur, an ex-con; the governess, formerly a featured act in strip clubs from New York and Miami; a secretary with a well developed taste in other women. Quite a household.
And not one to welcome the arrival of Mike Hammer - not when the kid had been kidnapped and everyone else was a suspect. Mystery Crime Fiction Pulp Paperback First published January 1, More Details. Mickey Spillane books followers. Mickey Spillane was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his alcoholic gumshoe Mike Hammer and a cast of evildoers who launder money or spout the Communist Party line.
His writing style was characterized by short words, lightning transitions, gruff sex and violent endings. It was once tallied that he offed 58 people in six novels. Starting with "I, the Jury," in , Mr. Spillane sold hundreds of millions of books during his lifetime and garnered consistently scathing reviews. Even his father, a Brooklyn bartender, called them "crud. Spillane was a struggling comic book publisher when he wrote "I, the Jury. Even the editor in chief of E.
Dutton and Co. Spillane's publisher, was skeptical of the book's literary merit but conceded it would probably be a smash with postwar readers looking for ready action. He was right. The book, in which Hammer pursues a murderous narcotics ring led by a curvaceous female psychiatrist, went on to sell more than 1 million copies. Spillane's success rankled other critics, who sometimes became very personal in their reviews. Malcolm Cowley called Mr.
Spillane "a homicidal paranoiac," going on to note what he called his misogyny and vigilante tendencies. Amidst the struggles of war-torn Singapore, the chaos of the Malayan Emergency and the violence of the Maria Hertogh race riots, a journey into the past brings a chilling discovery for Eurasian Annie Collins, who returns to Singapore seeking her lost baby.
This well-crafted story is a lament for the loss and damage of war, an unraveling mystery and a journey into suppressed memory and the nature of self-delusion.
The legendary master of hard-boiled classics returns with a razor-sharp espionage thriller. When fellow fishermen in the Caribbean begin falling prey to a mysterious sea entity, retired government operative Mako Hooker investigates. When a seemingly open-and-shut murder case is called into question by legendary FBI profiler Mark Wolfe, rookie detective Allison Doyle joins him on the hunt for an elusive psychopath who, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, is only days away from his next kill.
The battle of Culloden is over. They must leave the glen or starve. Those who stay will die. But would Glasgow be a safe haven? He doubts his ability to take care of those now his responsibility.
The woman who chose Edan knows he is able.
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