Kiss Her Goodbye, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
Kiss Her Goodbye, Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins
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Kiss Her Goodbye
A Mike Hammer Novel

Author: Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Unabridged: 8 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2011

Synopsis

Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long.Recuperating in Florida after the mob shootout that nearly claimed his life,he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeraland because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. ButManhattanin the seventies no longer feels like home.Hammers longtime partner, Velda, disappeared after he broke it off for her own safety, and his office is shut down. When a woman is murdered practically on the funerals doorstep,Hammer is drawn into the hunt fora cache of Nazi diamondsthatmakes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack and for the mysterious woman who had been close to Doolan in his final days. But drug racketeers, who had it in for Doolan, attract Hammers attention as well. Soon he is hobnobbing with cokesnorting celebrities at the notorious disco, Club 52, and playing footsie with a sleek lady DA., a modern woman on the make for oldfashioned Hammer. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillanes classic One Lonely Night.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Howard on April 20, 2021

I read the newly published, revised edition, NOT the Otto Penzler edition. I received this as a book giveaway. I am not familiar with the original ending to know how it changed. I have read numerous M. Spillane and Spillane/Collins collaborations. One of the pleasures of reading a series is the comfo......more

Goodreads review by Randy on February 25, 2011

The latest collaboration between the late Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Mickey Spillane left a number of unfinished manuscripts after his death and Collins was given them. This is the third Mike Hammer he's finished from notes and outlines left. Mike Hammer returns to New York city for the funeral......more

Goodreads review by AndrewP on April 04, 2017

This one I enjoyed more than most of the Spillane/Collins collaborations. I'm not sure how much original Spillane was in there and how much Collins added to finish the book, but one scene in a hotel was vintage Spillane. If Collins wrote that part then kudos to him for getting the feel and style jus......more

Goodreads review by Jim on November 02, 2019

Another one that Collins finished up after Spillane's death. It was fun, but I didn't like it as much as the last one I read. They really jumped the shark a couple of times with Hammer mowing down people in droves. Still, it was an interesting chapter in his continuing adventures & there are always......more

Goodreads review by William on April 16, 2011

Kiss Her Good-Bye by Mickey Spillane I forgot how violent Mickey Spillane Books are. Mike Hammer has retired due to battle wounds. The damage to his spirit is far worse than that to his body. There is something timeless about Mickey Spillane's work. Morality is based on personal philosophy rather tha......more

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