RiP Mickey Spillane

Tuesday, 18 July 2006 Books+Publishing

Hard-boiled crime writer Mickey Spillane, the creator of legendary private eye Mike Hammer, has died aged 88.Spillane's first Mike Hammer book, I, the Jury (in The Mike Hammer Omnibus vol 1, Allison & Busby) was published in 1947. He went on to write more than two dozen books that sold more...