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Penguin Publishing Group
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A phone call from a dying friend pulls Mike Hammer into a world of two-bit hucksters and hidden brutality, where life is cheap and revenge is costly. Lurking beneath the unsolved murder of a sleazy pickpocket, there is another, deeper mystery—with the fate of far more than one hard-boiled detective in the balance.
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Penguin Publishing Group
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1968
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English
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Mike Hammer wakes up in a hotel room and the buddy he went on a blackout bender with last night has a fresh hole in his chest. The finger of suspicion is pointed his way. When it’s ruled a suicide, he’s cut loose, but his P.I. license is revoked. But Hammer smells murder, and nothing’s going to keep him off the trail. As he untangles the web of corruption from the outside, the bodies start piling up. Hammer will need to keep his...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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Mike Hammer gives a lift to a beauty on the run from a sanitarium—but their joyride is cut short by two dark sedans full of professional killers, who knock the detective out cold. When he wakes up, his car has been rolled off a cliff, with his mysterious passenger still inside it. The feds take his gun away on suspicion, but Hammer’s not about to let that stop him. He’s on the hunt for the men who wrecked his ride and killed a dame...
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Penguin Publishing Group
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English
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The second novel in Mickey Spillane's classic detective series starring hard-boiled private eye Mike Hammer.
When a red-headed prostitue is killed in a hit-and-run "accident" Mike Hammer hunts down her killers and uncovers a powerful New York prostitution ring.
When a red-headed prostitue is killed in a hit-and-run "accident" Mike Hammer hunts down her killers and uncovers a powerful New York prostitution ring.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 4
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English
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Mayron Hughes may be one of the most sought after basketball players in the country, but the mysterious death of his former agents could threaten everything. The star athlete hires New York's most valuable private eye in order to prove his own innocence. The case becomes increasingly complicated, and the Hammer must look at an entire roster of suspects in order to find the real killer. From Mayron father to his new agent to Mayron himself, anyone...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 2
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English
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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.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 1
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English
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Mike Hammer is on the beat after the untimely death of former policeman Chic Farrell's death. After Mike finds Chic's son dead in a heroin house, the former cop is burning for revenge. Chic's own murder leaves Mike Hammer alone to find the killers, and the only witness is a strung out hooker who's on the run. The Russians and their steady supply of heroin to the city put them high up on Hammer's list of suspects.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 9
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English
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A successful stock broker on Wall Street is murdered in cold blood, and Andy the janitor is the first one to find his body. But when the simple man gets blood on his hands and accidentally incriminates himself, he turns to Mike Hammer to help him clear his good name. Hammer sees that Andy is innocent, but his attempt to find the real culprit is nearly foiled by a series of traps and pitfalls that evade the private eye's keen intuitions and continue...
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 5
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English
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A Hollywood actress with hometown ties to Hammer becomes the primary suspect in the gruesome murder of her own producer and boyfriend. In order to clear her name, she asks Mike to finds the real killer. The East Coast's best private eye must head West to get to the truth behind the lies. But as Hammer conducts his investigation, the situation in Malibu turns sticky, and he discovers that nothing is as it seems.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 6
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English
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It's Devil's Night in New York, and this year's Halloween festivities prove especially deadly. Before their date, Mike Hammer's love interest is murdered in her own apartment. With his heart broken and his own life on the line, Hammer must track down the heinous murderer. With Hammer's friends being targeted, he discovers a pattern that points to a cultist killer that he had locked up before. Mike must solve the case quickly, or he could be next.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 3
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English
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The virtual world has real consequences in Mike Hammer's latest case. Mike Hammer is offered a case by the worried grandmother of a missing young woman. Tamara had been working as a model for a racy website before her disappearance, and when Hammer's team discovers a snuff film posted online, he worries that she may have been victimized by something much more serious. Mike Hammer is on the case to either find Tamara, or bring her murderers to justice....
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 8
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English
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After a prostitute is murdered, Father Dressler is worried about the women who work nights in his neighborhood. The holy man asks Mike Hammer, a former parishioner, for help protecting the local ladies of the night but the rules of the confessional forbid him from giving Hammer too many details. When Dressler ends up dead, Mike Hammer is on the case, and he takes a position that is not so forgiving.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 7
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English
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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.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 12
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English
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Lila B. has earned Mike Hammer's attention for a number of reasons, not least of which is her intoxicating voice. But the beautiful jazz singer also has a dangerous side, keeping company with mobsters. When her beaux arrested, he's forced rat on his partners. The plot thickens when one of Lila's gentlemen called is killed and she becomes a suspect. With both the police and the mob on her heels, Hammer is determined to keep the songstress safe.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 8
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English
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Radio host Dr. Silvia runs an on-air love and relationship advice show for women. When Mike Hammer's girlfriend takes Dr. Silvia's advice to dump him, he makes an unscheduled guest appearance in her studio in order to give her a piece of his mind. With his new reputation as a macho bully, Mike Hammer becomes the prime suspect after she is suddenly murdered. Now, he and his team must prove his innocence by finding the real killer.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 10
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English
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An unexpected rendezvous between Maya and her globetrotting boyfriend Tony put Maya, Hammer, and his team in the middle of a case of international espionage. Maya is kidnapped, and Hammer must find her.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 3
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English
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There's more than just paint on the walls when Mike tries to help Velda after her boyfriend, an artist, is murdered in his studio before an exhibition. But Hammer struggles to connect the dots in this mysterious case, and a long list of suspects emerges when he discovers that the artist often made others see red. Could it be the artist's jealous ex, the wealthy art collector, the corrupted art critic, the gallery owner, or even Velda herself?
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 1
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English
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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.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 5
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English
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After being released from his time in prison, Mike Hammer's old friend Herman Simpson joins him for dinner. The discussion turns techie when Simpson brings up the computer revolution that is underway. However, a bank robbery involving this same technology-- and a suspiciously similar criminal --takes place the same evening. Simpson becomes the prime suspect, and Hammer is his only hope at staying free.
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Mike Hammer Private Eye volume 9
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English
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Mike Hammer travels down to Texas to attend his friend's wedding, but he still finds a case to work. Complications immediately arise when he discovers that the bride is missing. The fiancé's cousin is found dead with her organs surgically removed, and now the bride-to-be must be located before she might meet the same fate. Mike Hammer is the only one who can stop this white wedding from turning bloody.
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