Saturday, July 30, 2011

Mickey Spillane

My Dad loved the local newspaper, the Gisborne Herald, which he read from cover to cover - news stories, death notices, club reports, sports results,advertisements - the lot. He devoured that paper.
I don't especially remember him reading books except for those about All Black tours and Mickey Spillane's hugely popular, mass market detective yarns featuring  Mike Hammer. He read everyone as they were published; perhaps this explains  my passion for crime fiction?
Reading The International Herald Tribune yesterday, (this is my newspaper of choice when in Europe and Asia), I came across the following para:


The independent publisher Titan Books said it had acquired the worldwide and digital rights to three unpublished novels by MICKEY SPILLANE, the no-nonsense writer of pulpy detective mysteries and creator of the quintessential literary gumshoe MIKE HAMMER. The new Mike Hammer novels were found in Spillane's  archives (he died in 2006). They will be completed by the mystery writer MAX ALLAN COLLINS and released between 2012 and 2014. The first called "Lady, Go Die!" is planned for publication in May 2012. A second unreleased novel, Complex 90", is described as a cold-war thriller and scheduled for release in May 2013; "King of the Weeds", is salted for May 2014.






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