'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Spillane was an active Jehovah's Witness. The novelist Ayn Rand, a friend of Spillane's, appreciated the black-and-white morality of his books. DeAndrea, as well as artist Markus Lupertz. However, he was later praised by American mystery writers Max Alan Collins and William L. He was uniformly disliked by critics, owing to the high content of sex and violence in his books.

More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. The many novels that followed became instant bestsellers, until in 1980 the US all-time fiction bestseller list of fifteen titles boasted seven by Mickey Spillane. One lonely knight : Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer by Collins, Max Allan. The novel sold six and a half million copies in the United States, and introduced Spillane's most famous character, the hardboiled PI Mike Hammer. He wrote his first novel, I, the Jury (1947), in order to raise the money to buy a house for himself and his first wife, Mary Ann Pearce. He was married three times, the third time to Jane Rogers Johnson, and had four children and two stepchildren. Pat Chambers, Hammer's police department friend, identifies the pair as Communists. He deals with the man, but, terrified, the woman jumps to her death. After the war, he moved to South Carolina. PI Mike Hammer is out for a late-night walk in the rain when he sees a woman being pursued across a bridge. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and became a fighter pilot and instructor. Born Frank Morrison Spillane in Brooklyn, New York City, Mickey Spillane started writing while at high school.

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