Mickey Spillane

When legendary mystery writer Mickey Spillane died in 2006, he left behind the manuscript of one last novel he'd just completed: THE LAST STAND. He asked his friend and colleague (and fellow Mystery Writers of America Grand Master) Max Allan Collins to take responsibility for finding the right time and place to publish this final book. Now, on the hundredth anniversary of Spillane's birth, his millions of fans will at last get to read THE LAST STAND,...

When a murderer his old friend Captain Pat Chambers put away years earlier is freed on new evidence, Mike Hammer and Velda begin investigating an outbreak of suspicious police deaths.

While driving down a lonely road late one evening, Hammer picks up a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, dressed in nothing but a raincoat. At first, Hammer assumes that the incoherent girl is an escaped lunatic; his mind is changed for him when he and the girl are abducted by two thugs. The men torture the girl to death as the semiconscious Hammer watches helplessly. He himself escapes extermination when the murderers' car topples off a cliff and he is...

Inspired by the timeless westerns of John Wayne and the hardboiled heroes of classic crime fiction, bestselling legends Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins turn up the heat on their tin-star tough guy Caleb York-in a gun-blazing showdown with two women ranchers calling the shots... It starts with an abusive, drunken young scoundrel who resists arrest, holds a barmaid hostage, and gets what he deserves from the blazing .44 of Sheriff Caleb York....

Mike Hammer is hired to investigate a toxic chemical dump in the Hudson River by Patrick Dean, the man accused of the crime. Hammer is no fan of tabloids, but his sleuthing uncovers new headlines of his own. While looking to clear his name, the journalist who broke the story and incriminated Patrick is found dead. Now, Hammer starts to suspect that his client might not be as clean as he claimed to be.

While on a stakeout, Mike steps in to save a cop and arrest a mobster. Lingering doubts about the scenario trouble Hammer, and he searches for a connection. A surprise birthday party interrupts his train of thought, but a threatening phone call puts the private investigator right back in the thick of things. When the caller tell Mike Hammer that he has 24 hours to live, he must uncover the truth at the bottom of the mystery.

An operating room with dead nurses, doctors, and patient draws serious questions, but something doesn't smell quite right. The daughter of the patient, whose body odor was believed to be the source of the deadly fumes, brings the case to Mike along with some suspicious questions about the nature of the hospital's treatment plan for her father. Something's just not right, and Hammer is determined to find out what.

Mike's old friend Simon has been dead for some time. At least, that's what everybody thought. When Simon shows up alive and wanting revenge, he needs Mike's help tracking down the person that tried to kill him.