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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 career. But when the suspects begin to drop like flies, Hammer realises there is more to this case than just a salacious tape.
Read Online Mike Hammer Murder My Love Max Allan Collins Mickey Spillane Books
"Mike Hammer is alive and well in MAC hands
Really enjoyed reading classic PI story
It’s done right, from the fedora down to the snappy dialogue"
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Mike Hammer Murder My Love Max Allan Collins Mickey Spillane Books Reviews :
Mike Hammer Murder My Love Max Allan Collins Mickey Spillane Books Reviews
- I’ve been starving for a private eye story loaded with crackling prose. The hardboiled mystery in Murder, My Love delivers a feast for fans of Mike Hammer, that icon of detectives in a trench coat, his .45 automatic in a shoulder holster, and most important, a fedora. I devoured the mystery in a matter of hours. I’m already looking forward to re-reading Murder, My Love after I go back to the beginning so I can re-visit all of the Mike Hammer thrillers chronologically. Over the last decade, Mickey Spillane’s canon of classic P.I. stories has nearly doubled thanks to Max Allan Collins expanding the library. With previous entries such as The Goliath Bone or The Big Bang, Spillane left several pages and notes for Collins to finish writing the books. For this one Collins only possessed a synopsis. As Spillane’s literary executor, Collins hits every beat that makes a Mike Hammer thriller Moody weather, detailed locations of the period (the early-nineties this time), femme fatales, seductive sex, and blazing violence. If you’re squeamish about some of this stuff, don’t worry. It all serves the story. And the villains get what they deserve in a slam-bang finish.
- I've been waiting a long time for this novel, and it was worth the wait!
Collins has done a great job with this Mike Hammer novel, just as he's done in his previous novels. This is the same Mike Hammer as he was in Spillane's earlier work - a cocky attitude, wisecracks, trench coat, and Colt .45 Automatic, his beautiful secretary Velda, and no apologies.
The quality of this book shows that Collins is an expert and genuinely cares about Spillane's most famous detective. His attention to detail and to the time period are superb.
If you're looking for a classic hard-boiled detective novel, this is it! - Plenty of violence, kind of light on the sex, some great one-liners [ my favorite--"Aren't those short naps refreshing." Page 162. Go back and look. We'll wait.] Max hits a home run with this one, almost all on his own, and here's hoping that he does many more. Hey Max, how about picking up the late Ed McBain's 87th pct series? As if you're not busy enough.
- Mike Hammer is alive and well in MAC hands
Really enjoyed reading classic PI story
It’s done right, from the fedora down to the snappy dialogue - â€Murder, My Love†is the 24th novel in Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer series. Spillane published the original 13 in his lifetime between 1947 (I, The Jury) and 1996 (Black Alley). Since Spillane’s passing, his friend Max Allan Collins (got to use all 3 names like Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Boothe) has taken Spillane’s partial manuscripts, notes, and outlines and finished another 12 novels beginning with The Goliath Bone (2008) and going to next year’s upcoming Masquerade for Murder (2020), a total of 25.
As Collins concedes, Murder, My Love is based on an outline not a manuscript and is more Collins than Spillane at this point, but the spirit of Spillane is so thoroughly invoked that it is hard to tell the difference.
In any event, it is a terrific story, one that has an aging Mike Hammer (now hovering around 60) stepping once more into the fray. Hammer jokes about his aging reflexes and that he’s old, but not dead when one lady or another puts her moves on him.
The case here is blackmail, a point which politics, sex, and violence often merge. And, Hammer, still engaged to aging knockout Velda after several decades, flatfoots it around town trying to nail the blackmailers. Unfortunately, Velda plays a background role here and isn’t as prominently featured.
By the end of the story, the body count rises to Hammer standards although he and his .45 can’t claim responsibility for most of the corpses. In today’s age, this novel doesn’t stand out for its sex and violence, but the early Hammer novels did.
This is a fast-paced tale that will be appreciated by Spillane fans and hardboiled fiction readers. - The blurb splashed across the cover of John D. MacDonald's 1952 paperback original, The Damned reads "I Wish I Had Written This Book" --Mickey Spillane.
If the late, great Spillane were alive today, he might say of Murder, My Love “I couldn’t have done better myself.â€
Unlike previous Mickey Spillane / Max Allan Collins collaborations, every word of Murder, My Love was written by Collins. Ironically, that’s all the more reason to read this book. Collins nails the Mike Hammer character, his dress, dialogue, attitude, and demeanor. He’s also adept portraying the familiar supporting cast, Velda and Captain Chambers.
The action takes place in, where else, New York City. It’s Hammer’s hometown. The iconic private detective investigates a bribery case involving a U.S. Senator. There is no shortage of women and violence, the perfect ingredients for a Mike Hammer story.
The ending? I won’t spoil it. It’s vintage Mike Hammer. Murder, My Love has whet my appetite for the next Spillane / Collins book. - It may be short, but it's still Mike Hammer.
In what might be considered the second shortest of The Mike Hammer novels (“Killing Town†being the first), Max Allan Collins gives us a classic Mike Hammer story where America's most famous private-eye has been hired by Senator Jamie Winters to find out who exactly is blackmailing the Congressman. As Hammer gets closer to closing the case, the bodies start piling up.
The Mike Hammer in this book is old, but he's still got it and everything that makes a Mike Hammer novel is in this book Velda, the old .45, and yes, even good old New York, New York. - Can't say this enough-this is the best Spillane/Collins collaboration yet! I really liked this book because Hammer starts out with a real case and a real client--something that is usually missing in his stories--and that's why I enjoyed it so much. Of course, Hammer is as tough and wise-cracking as ever (loved Velda, too)--and that's what always makes him fun to read. The story was great and kept me turning the pages, loved the ending. The only downside to this book it was too short--I never wanted it to end! Great job, Max--can't wait for the next one!
