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The independent publisher Titan Books said it had acquired the worldwide and digital rights to three unpublished novels by MICKEY SPILLANE, the no-nonsense writer of pulpy detective mysteries and creator of the quintessential literary gumshoe MIKE HAMMER.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.

Much more at Wikipedia.




List of titles:

• 1947 I, the Jury - Mike Hammer
• 1950 My Gun is Quick - Mike Hammer
• 1950 Vengeance Is Mine! - Mike Hammer
• 1951 The Big Kill - Mike Hammer
• 1951 The Long Wait
• 1951 One Lonely Night - Mike Hammer
• 1952 Kiss Me, Deadly - Mike Hammer
• 1961 The Deep
• 1962 The Girl Hunters - Mike Hammer
• 1964 Day of the Guns - Tiger Mann
• 1964 The Snake - Mike Hammer
• 1965 Bloody Sunrise - Tiger Mann
• 1965 The Death Dealers - Tiger Mann
• 1966 The By-Pass Control - Tiger Mann
• 1966 The Twisted Thing - Mike Hammer
• 1967 The Body Lovers - Mike Hammer
• 1967 The Delta Factor
• 1970 Survival Zero - Mike Hammer
• 1972 The Erection Set - a Dogeron Kelly novel; in the Jacqueline Susann mold
• 1973 The Last Cop Out - written in the third person
• 1979 The Day The Sea Rolled Back - young adult
• 1982 The Ship That Never Was - young adult
• 1989 The Killing Man - Mike Hammer
• 1996 Black Alley - Mike Hammer
• 2003 Something Down There - featuring semi-retired spy Mako Hooker
• 2007 Dead Street - completed by Max Allan Collins^[9]
• 2008 The Goliath Bone - Mike Hammer; completed by Max Allan Collins
• 2010 The Big Bang - Mike Hammer; completed by Max Allan Collins
• 2011 Kiss Her Goodbye - Mike Hammer; completed by Max Allan Collins