In Mickey Spillane's classic detective novels, the action exploded in a bone-crunching catharsis. Men and women didn't make love, they collided. Tough brutes used their fists to drive home a message. Tougher broads used guile. And no one's morals were loftier than the gutter. No apologies. Little redemption. They rendered critics powerless, shocked intellectuals, inspired a new wave of pulp mayhem, and left the public hungry for more.
Given their hot, fever-pitch prose and breathless pacing, Spillane's Mike Hammer novels quickly became one of the most successful series in publishing history--an innovative, no-holds-barred, ultravisceral explosion of sex and violence that made Hammer a literary legend, and Spillane, one of the bestselling authors of all time. After fifty years, neither has lost their power to sucker punch the reader.
Find out for yourself in this omnibus featuring the first three Mike Hammer novels by the living master of the hard-boiled mystery...
Includes:The Big Kill
One Lonely Night
Kiss Me, Deadly
An exciting trio of classic boy's adventures from a recognized Grand Master in the mystery genre-Mickey Spillane.
In The Day the Sea Rolled Back, an inexplicable freak of nature rolls the sea back from the shores of the Caribbean Island of Peolle and allows Larry and Josh to search for the wreck of the Nantucket Belle and its supposed hoard of Spanish treasure. But-unbeknownst to them-the boys are closely tracked by a pair of local fishermen who mean to take the treasure for themselves.
During The Ship That Never Was, Larry and Josh task themselves with rescuing an ancient sailor adrift in a mysterious longboat and find themselves involved in finding a lost island and restoring a missing heir to the throne of a kingdom.
In The Shrinking Island, Larry and Josh embark on their most exciting adventure yet when they find themselves up against dangerous storms, a missing Spanish galleon, a gang of greedy salvage hunters, and a disappearing Island in a race against time to save the sacred land of their friend's ancestors...
Mickey Spillane is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century for not only creating Mike Hammer-the toughest private eye of all time-but for many other hardboiled novels that turned a generation of well-mannered mysteries on their head. In this collection, the adventures of Larry and Josh will thrill those seeking adventure...
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR MICKEY SPILLANE'S MOST TERRIFYING NOVEL.
In touristy Peachtree Heights, Georgia, a string of presumably accidental deaths of area physicians rouses the suspicions of Police Chief Blake Cutter. But the former big-city cop's attempts to warn Dr. Roy Ryan are viewed by his estranged wife as an attempt to muddy the waters of a custody battle over the couple's young son, Richie.
Too late to do anything more, a small, incredibly powerful creature emerges from the night to brave the walls of the doctor's compound, terrorizing the family and any and all police guarding them. The menace is suddenly real, and those physicians' deaths are anything but accidental.
And when young Richie's archeologist uncle gives the boy a grisly birthday present-an actual Aztec mummy!-the child begins to think the long-dead corpse is his friend, one who is still-breathing ...
Mickey Spillane was the best-selling American mystery writer of the 20th Century. From an unproduced Spillane screenplay, his chosen successor, Max Allan Collins, has fashioned this compelling thriller.
A BEST-SELLING AUTHOR MICKEY SPILLANE COLLECTION OF LONG-THOUGHT-LOST HARDBOILED TALES.
All of Spillane's classic ingredients-betrayal, sex, gangsters, and, of course, revenge-are in one place for the first time and told in his trademark muscular prose.
Readers familiar with Spillane will revel in the purity of these granite-hard crime stories that provide everything they expect and more from their favorite author. Those new to the works of the biggest selling mystery writer of the 20th century will discover Spillane's one-of-a-kind world of killers, femme fatales, and heroes more dangerous than meat-hook-wielding psychopaths...
A total of ten of Spillane's rarest adventures are included in this collection, so be sure to put it at the top of your must-read list!
Often imitated, never equaled, Mickey Spillane and his creations are always unique and exciting. A true delight for crime fiction fans, this edition is sure to become a collector's item.
Stand Up and Die! includes: Stand Up and Die, Together We Kill, The Girl Behind the Hedge, The Pickpocket, I'll Die Tomorrow, Everybody's Watching Me, Tomorrow I Die, Hot Cat, The Gold Fever Tapes, and Tonight I Die-A Mike Hammer Story.