Mickey Spillane said 'If the public likes you, you're good.' The public liked him - enough to make him one of the bestselling novelists of all time. Not just because he was good, but because he was the best. What's more, he was the first. Mickey Spillane's classic Mike Hammer detective novels may have appalled intellectuals and outraged moralists, but beneath the feverish prose, beyond the raw explosion of sex and violence, Spillane wrote honestly, simply, astonishingly about loyalty. And betrayal. Collected here for the first time are three of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer novels that really deliver the goods, one shade blacker than noir - stories that begin in the gutter and go down from there. Here is a world where the only crime is getting caught, where justice can be bought for the price of a beer, and where corruption lies around every corner. This is Mike Hammer's world. Welcome to it...and watch out.
This is the ultimate Poe collection, featuring every story and poem he wrote. It probes the depths of the human psyche. It will chill and enthrall. But above all it is story after story that you will never be able to forget.
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Living by their own rules and charged with passion, Poe's characters are instantly recognizable'even though we may be appalled by their actions, we understand their motivations.The thirty-three selections in The Best of Poe highlight his ...
Poe's complete stories include tales of horror, detective stories, and science fiction, as well as humor and satire
Sixty-seven Tales, One Complete Novel, and Thirty-one Poems Edgar Allan Poe. are described with vivid accuracy in tales such as “ The Fall of the House of Usher , ” “ The Cask of Amontillado , ” and “ The Premature Burial .
Six crime short stories (about 25,000 words) including two "mob" stories originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine plus additional stories involving the mob, murder and mystery.
Archer appeared first in The Moving Target ( 1949 ) , a book that owed much to Chandler , and continued in several novels that were , in the estimation of John Leonard , “ full of wisecracks and movie starlets , plutocrats and ...
The old seaman sat against a bollard to ease his load. He knocked the ash out of his pipe, then used a small knife to clean the bowl. After wiping his knife on the hawser, he put the pipe in a jacket pocket, picked up his bedroll, ...
... copyright © 1992 by Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines , reprinted by permission of Sterling Lord Literistic , Ltd .; " See How They Run " by Robert Bloch , copyright © 1973 by Davis Publications , Inc. , reprinted by permission of the ...
This is not your typical anthology.