A Long Time Dead, Mickey Spillane
A Long Time Dead, Mickey Spillane
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A Long Time Dead
A Mike Hammer Casebook

Author: Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 04/18/2023


Synopsis

With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: the first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform comes close to pushing him in front of a train. While any one of these could be a coincidence, together they make a conspiracy—one that Hammer will have to end in order to survive. And when it comes to finishing something—or someone—nobody does it better than Hammer.One of the twentieth century’s bestselling American mystery authors, Mickey Spillane changed noir fiction forever when he loosed Mike Hammer on the world. Now these eight short stories, collected and finished by Max Allan Collins, show that Spillane is still capable of redefining the genre.The stories in A Long Time Dead have received numerous accolades, including an Edgar Award nomination, two International Association of Media and Tie-in Writers “Scribe” Awards, and a Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award.

About Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane (1918–2006) was one of the most popular authors of all time, with millions of copies of his books in print worldwide. He introduced Mike Hammer to readers in 1947 with I, the Jury. He was named a Grand Master in 1995 by the Mystery Writers of America.

About Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins is the New York Times bestselling author of Road to Perdition and multiple award-winning novels, screenplays, comic books, comic strips, trading cards, short stories, movie novelizations, and historical fiction. He has scripted the Dick Tracy comic strip, Batman comic books, and written tie-in novels based on the CSI, Bones, and Dark Angel TV series; collaborated with legendary mystery author Mickey Spillane; and authored numerous mystery series including Quarry, Nolan, Mallory, Eliot Ness, and the bestselling Nathan Heller historical thrillers.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is an award winning audiobook narrator, director, and producer. He was born in Poland and now resides in Studio City, California. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks and has participated in over a thousand as a writer, producer, or director. He is a recipient of multiple Audie Awards and AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as a Grammy Award, a Bram Stoker Award, and a Ray Bradbury Award.


Reviews

Many of you who read my reviews know that I like a lot of what Max Allan Collins has written in the “hard-boiled detective” genre. Collins has had a long and successful career as an author and he wrote the screen play for Road to Perdition (his original novel) benefitting from Tom Hanks leading the......more

Goodreads review by Donna

“The evening sky was gray and growling but I had left the trenchcoat behind and my suit coat was unbuttoned. This was the kind of sketchy gin mill where I wanted easy access to the .45 under my arm. The waterfront bouquet greeted me, salt air, grease, oil, sweat and dead fish drifting like a ghost......more

Goodreads review by Glen

A great collection of Mike Hammer short stories. All of the stories are good, but some of them are just too similar to one another, hence, I dinged it a star. Still, any Mike Hammer is a great read.......more

GNAB I received a free electronic copy of this novel from Netgalley and Max Allen Collins in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for sharing your work with me! And this was a nice trip back into the world of Mike Hammer, a place I shared with my Dad many years ago. I loved the idea of short stor......more