Mystery Books
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The Alpine Traitor (An Emma Lord Mystery)Emma Lord is shocked to hear that the Advocate is embroiled in a ruthless takeover bid. Soon, battle lines are drawn and war is de
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The Beauties of Burns: Consisting of Selections from His Poems and LettersThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pag
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The Last Precinct: Scarpetta (Book 11)The new era of Scarpetta begins…In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, Patricia Corn
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Total Recall (V. I. Warshawski)The bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels have dazzled readers and earned the acclaim of critics everywhere. “V.I. Warshawski rules
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See Delphi and Die: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)It’s A.D. 76 during the reign of Vespasian, and Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman “informer,” has achieved much in his
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Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan Novels)"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic an
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Dreamland LakeWhen two thirteen-year-olds discover a dead man, a chain of events begins that involves several kinds of death.
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Mickey Spillane biography
Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally.[1] In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the U.S.
Spillane joined the United States Army Air Forces on December 8, 1941, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the mid-1940s he was stationed as a flight instructor in Greenwood, Mississippi, where he met and married Mary Ann Pearce in 1945. The couple wanted to buy a country house in the Newburgh, New York, 60 miles north of New York City, so Spillane decided to boost his bank account by writing a novel. In 19 days he wrote I, the Jury. At the suggestion of Ray Gill, he sent it to E. P. Dutton.
With the combined total of the 1947 hardcover and the Signet paperback (December 1948), I, the Jury sold six and a half million copies in the United States alone. I, the Jury introduced Spillane's most famous character, hardboiled detective Mike Hammer. Although tame by current standards, his novels featured more sex than competing titles, and the violence was more overt than the usual detective story. An early version of Spillane's Mike Hammer character, called Mike Danger, was submitted in a script for a detective-themed comic book. " 'Mike Hammer originally started out to be a comic book. I was gonna have a Mike Danger comic book,' [Spillane] said in a 1984 interview."[7] Two Mike Danger comic-book stories were published in 1954 without Spillane's knowledge, as well as one featuring Mike Lancer (1942), were published with other material in "Byline: Mickey Spillane," edited by Max Allan Collins and Lynn F. Myers, Jr. (Crippen & Landru publishers, 2004).
Information source: wikipedia