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Murder Never Knocks

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Written by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — As the creator of the iconic PI Mike Hammer, hardboiled author Mickey Spillane needs no introduction. Nor should Max Allan Collins. The latter’s original series about Quarry, the hit-man who targets other hitmen, is about to become…
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Kill Me, Darling

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Written by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — As Mickey Spillane’s literary executor, Max Allan Collins has been doing a great job finding and completing manuscripts by the late author. In fact, this is the fourth such book we’ve reviewed, following on from Lady, Go Die!,…
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King of the Weeds

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Written by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — Once again, Max Allan Collins reprises his role as literary executor and with King of the Weeds he has completed another of Mickey Spillane’s unfinished manuscripts. Whereas the last two books produced in this fashion –…
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The PI Case Files - Part 1

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Ah, the private investigator – staple reading for crime fiction lovers. Typically they’d have an office with the name of their agency emblazoned across the door. And inside, a desk to rest their feet on, with whiskey and a .45 in the drawer. In the…
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Complex 90

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Written by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins — Titan Books and Mickey Spillane’s literary executor Max Allan Collins are back, and they’ve completed and released another unfinished Mike Hammer novel from the archives. We reviewed Lady, Go Die! last year, gave it four stars,…
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Seduction of the Innocent

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Written by Max Allan Collins — As a writer of crime fiction, Max Allan Collins has many strings to his bow. The Quarry series of novels features a hardboiled antihero similar to Richard Stark’s Parker. His long running series about Chicago PI Nathan Heller is…
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Interview: Max Allan Collins

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As we reported on Crime Fiction Lover, Max Allan Collins is the literary executor of Mickey Spillane and has completed the lost second Mike Hammer novel, Lady, Go Die! for publication. The book was originally written by Spillane in the late 1940s after I, the…
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