And James Lincoln Warren of Los Angeles wrote, ‘Identifying author Mickey Spillane, the creator of Mike Hammer, as a notorious New York mobster is like calling James Joyce a famous Irish ...

Robert Brooks and Mickey Spillane, suppliers of fantasies to American males, ... When his beer came, in a cold, wet pitcher, he and his mystery companion drank a toast to Bob Brooks.

Mickey didn’t write much between 1952 and 1960, just some novellas and film scripts. In the early ‘50s, to meet the demand for the sexy, hard-hitting style of fiction he created, Spillane’s ...

Macho mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose gritty gumshoe, Mike Hammer, was the sexy, violent Cold War icon of the genre – spawning books, movies and a TV series – has died at his Sout… ...

Mickey Spillane was 1950s pulp fiction. His vicious, violent detective Mike Hammer was the dark side of those detectives-with-honour Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.

Matthew McConaughey to Reunite With ‘True Detective’ Creator Nic Pizzolatto for ‘Mike Hammer’ Movie. Pizzolatto penned the script based on the character created by author Mickey Spillane.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Mickey Spillane liked to say he was a writer, not an author. That was his way of describing his occupation – not as art, but as a skilled, blue-collar line of work. A ...

Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88. He was the creator of Mike Hammer, the tough-talking private eye of pulp novels and noir films — a vigilante with a restless trigger finger.