Mike Hammer - Killing Town (The Lost First Mike Hammer Thriller)

Wow!!! Ich bin begeistert!!!  Zu seinem Hundertsten Geburtstag 2018 erschien ein gefundenes Manuskript. "Killing Town". Es spielt zeitlich vor I, the Jury, das 1947 erschien. Es wäre sozusagen der erste Mike Hammer Roman, sofern man ihn veröffentlicht hätte. Warum nicht, das ist unklar, das weiß nicht mal Max Allan Collins. Das Manuskript wurde von Max Allan Collins bearbeitet und vollendet. Max Allan Colliins ist so etwas wie der Nachlassverwalter von Mickey Spillane, was die Bücher betrifft. 1996 erschien der letzte Mike Hammer. "Black Alley". Collins setzte die Mike Hammer Reihe fort. 2025 erschien der letzte Mike Hammer Roman. "Baby it`s Murder!". 

THE LOST FIRST MIKE HAMMER THRILLER! The lost book that begins the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition.

Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles--daughter of powerful Senator Charles--might possibly save him... if he pays the price.

But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And, more to the point, where is the real murderer?

From a brittle, brown manuscript, the first Mike Hammer novel--begun by Mickey Spillane in the mid-forties and completed seventy years later by Max Allan Collins--is a gift to mystery fans on the occasion of the noir master's 100th birthday.

With Mickey Spillane (novel and short stories):

15 Romane und 9 Short Stories

• The Goliath Bone (2008) – Mike Hammer
• "The Big Switch" – (2009) – Mike Hammer short story
• The Big Bang (2010) – Mike Hammer
• "A Long Time Dead" (2010) – Mike Hammer short story
• "Grave Matter" (2010) – Mike Hammer short story in Crimes by Moonlight
• Kiss Her Goodbye (2011) – Mike Hammer
• Lady, Go Die! (2012) – Mike Hammer
• "Skin" (2012) – Mike Hammer e-book short story
• Complex 90 (2013) – Mike Hammer
• "So Long, Chief" (2013) – Mike Hammer short story
• King of the Weeds (2014) – Mike Hammer
• "It's in the Book" (2014) – Mike Hammer e-book short story
• Kill Me, Darling (2015) – Mike Hammer
• "Fallout" (2015) – Mike Hammer short story
• Murder Never Knocks (2016) – Mike Hammer
• "A Dangerous Cat" (2016) – Mike Hammer short story
• A Long Time Dead: A Mike Hammer Casebook (2016) – reprints Mike Hammer short stories and e-book short stories
• The Will to Kill (2017) – Mike Hammer
• Killing Town (2018) – Mike Hammer
• Murder, My Love (2019) – Mike Hammer
• Masquerade for Murder (2020) – Mike Hammer
• Kill Me If You Can (2022) – Mike Hammer
• Dig Two Graves (2023) - Mike Hammer
• Baby, It's Murder (2025) - The Final Mike Hammer Novel