Mickey Spillane - The Mike Hammer Collection: Volume 1

She twisted away and there was a loud whispering of cloth and the gown came away in my hands. She went staggering across the room stark naked except for the high-heel shoes and sheer stockings. She rammed an end table, her hands reaching for the drawer, and she got it open far enough for me to see the gun she was trying to get at.
I had mine out first.

This is Mickey Spillane.

I, the Jury

And judge. And executioner. Introducing private detective Mike
Hammer in the book that launched homicides hottest hero.

My Gun Is Quick

Mike Hammer couldnt take his eyes off the bombshell sitting at the
bar. No man could. But which one snuffed her out?

Vengeance Is Mine!

Is she really an innocent blond model? Or is she just posing? Nothing
that looks that good could be that innocent.

Coming in Fall 2001:

The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 2, featuring:
One Lonely Night, The Big Kill, and Kiss Me, Deadly
Introduction by Lawrence Block

Mike Hammer Novels by Mickey Spillane

I, the Jury
My Gun Is Quick
Vengeance Is Mine!
One Lonely Night
The Big Kill
Kiss Me, Deadly
The Girl Hunters
The Snake
The Twisted Thing
The Body Lovers
Survival ... ZERO!
The Killing Man
Black Alley

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I, the Jury copyright E.P Dutton & Co., Inc., 1947

Copyright renewed Mickey Spillane, 1975
My Gun Is Quick copyright E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950
Copyright renewed Mickey Spillane, 1978
Vengeance Is Mine! copyright E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1950
Copyright renewed, Mickey Spillane, 1978
Introduction Max Allan Collins, 2001
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIONS DATA:

Spillane, Mickey, 1918
The Mike Hammer collection / Mickey Spillane.
p. cm.
Contents: v. 1. I, the juryMy gun is quickVengeance is mine

eISBN : 978-1-440-67222-4

1. Hammer, Mike (Fictitious character)Fiction. 2. Private investigatorsNew York (State)
New YorkFiction. 3. Detective and mystery stories, American. I. Title.
PS3537.P652 A6 2001
813.54dc21 00-052728

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Mickey Spillane: This Time Its Personal

I f you have never read a Mike Hammer novel before, how I envy you. You are about to take the definitive wild ride of American mystery fiction, and will meet the most famous tough private eye of them allMike Hammernot in a watered-down movie or TV show rendition, but via the gritty, mind-boggling real thing: the unmistakable, electrifying prose of Mickey Spillane.

Andif you have read these novels before, perhaps a long, long time agoyou may be surprised to discover that Spillane isnt just the remarkable entertainer you remember, but a distinctive literary stylist ... if not an author (a word he despises, always reminding us that he is a writer, and proud to be one), that his work nonetheless belongs on the same short shelf as that of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

Ill give you the literary lowdown a few pages from now and make the case for Mickey Spillane and Mike Hammer as more than a mere entertainer and the pop-culture phenomenon he created. First, I want to get personaland thats fitting, because at the core of Spillanes success is the personal nature of his storytelling. Mike Hammer is always motivated not by a client who walks in the door, but the murder of a friend. He is a detective, yes, and a much better one than he is ever given credit for; but he is, first and last, an avenger.

Something personal is at stake at the heart of every Spillane novel, particularly the Mike Hammers. And Hammer himself is (as Spillane has frequently said) a state of mind; with only the barest references to physical descriptionHammer is big, hes uglySpillane presents a character so vivid, whose voice is so readily identifiable, that for five decades filmmakers have been frustrated to recreate this famous character satisfactorily on the screen. Its I , the Jury, after allemphasis on the I. With Hammers idiosyncratic yet natural voice, Spillane merges his heros mind with the readers in a manner that makes a Hammer yarn both immediate and intimate. And like the early Beatles, Spillane knew that using first-person pronouns in his titles would emphasize the personal nature of his heros quest.