- Fiction, Private investigators, Mike Hammer (Fictitious character), Mystery
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- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Mickey Spillane
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin USA, Inc., Curley Pub., Librairie Générale Française]
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- und, Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9781883402204
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Frank Morrison Spillane, better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American author of crime novels, many featuring his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. In 1980, Spillane was responsible for seven of the top 15 all-time best-selling fiction titles in the United States. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Spillane was the only child of his Irish bartender father, John Joseph Spillane, and his Scottish mother, Catherine Anne. Spillane attended Erasmus Hall High School, graduating in 1935. He started writing while in high school, briefly attended Fort Hays State College in Kansas and worked
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