Mike Hammer Series - Mickey Spillane

Category: Adults, Classic, Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Keywords: Hard Case Crime Mickey Spillane Mike Hammer

Written by Mickey Spillane
Read by various
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

For those of you too young to remember - Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. After his death, his friend and literary executor, Max Allen Collins began the task of editing and completing Spillane’s unpublished typescripts, beginning with a Mike Hammer novel, The Goliath Bone (2008).

In this collection three books are abridged and four have no recordings. There was an unabridged Vengeance is Mine floating around for years and it is now dead. I included 2 copies of book One. Until recently only one unabridged version was available. Richard Wulf was all cleaned up and ready to go when I got the newer version so I’m uploading both. Sources are: torrents, Overdrive, Audible and CD and all at 64k for continuity.

Like the Max Allan Collins, there is nothing politically correct about Mickey Spillane..

01 - I, the Jury (1947) – Mike Dennis - 5hrs 28min, Richard Wulf – 5hts 51min
Meet Mike Hammer, the toughest private eye in New York City. When his best friend gets the business from a .45, Hammer sets out to nail the killer. Suspects include an ex-bootlegger; the dead man’s drug addicted fiancée, and a voluptuous blond psychiatrist, to name a few.

02 - My Gun is Quick (1950) – William Dufris – 7hrs 49min
The story starts with Mike Hammer meeting a red-haired prostitute in a diner. She is hassled by a man she appears to know and fear but Mike deals with him swiftly. Despite little conversation, he gives her some money to get a real job and leaves. The next day she is found dead, the victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident. Mike does not believe this and proceeds to hunt down her murderers. In the process he uncovers a massive and powerful prostitution ring in New York.

03 - Vengeance is Mine (1950 – (abridged) - Stacy Keach - 2hrs 50min
Mike Hammer is on the trail of a gun-crazed killer, teamed up with an untrustworthy beautiful blond. The action explodes all across town, with Hammer caught in the middle.

04 - One Lonely Night (1951) - William Dufris - 7hrs 23min 1951
Mike Hammer encounters a mob of international thugs on the prowl for military secrets, but before he deals with them he must first placate a spoiled socialite.

05 - The Big Kill (1951) – William Dufris - 6hrs .55min
Drinking at a seedy bar on a rainy night, Hammer notices a man come in with an infant. The man, named Decker, cries as he kisses the infant goodbye, then walks out in the rain to be shot to death. Hammer shoots the assailant as he searches Decker’s body. The driver of the getaway car runs over the man Hammer shot to ensure that he won’t talk. Hammer takes care of the infant and vows revenge on the person behind such a deed. Hammer’s trail of vengeance leads him to hostile encounters with his police friend Pat Chambers, the District Attorney and his stooges as well as beatings, assassination attempts, and torture from gangsters that Hammer reciprocates in an eye for an eye fashion. Hammer also has loving encounters with two women he meets on his quest.

06 - Kiss Me, Deadly (1952) – (abridged) - Stacy Keach - 2hrs .58min
A beautiful woman’s cold-blooded murder has the mark of the Mafia. Although warned to stay away, Hammer won’t stop until he gets revenge.

07 – The Girl Hunters (1962) - missing
08 - The Snake (1966) - missing

09 - The Twisted Thing (1966) – Jeff Harding – 6hrs 49min
A boy is kidnapped. No ordinary boy either, a child genius. His father calls in the police – which was exactly the wrong thing to do. Dilwick, in charge of the case, is the dirtiest, roughest cop who ever walked the beat. Billy Parks, an old friend of Mike’s who is working as a chauffeur for the child’s rich father, is called in to the station to be questioned. When Mike witnesses Dilwick’s unorthodox interview technique at first-hand, he takes it upon himself to prove Billy’s innocence. —–But first he has to find the boy…

10 – The Body Love (1967) – missing
11 - Survival—Zero (1970) – missing

12 – The Killing Man (1989) – (abridged) - Stacy Keach - 2hrs 40min
The image of bloodshed in his office remained etched in Mike Hammer’s mind forever - his secretary sprawled on the floor and a stranger sitting dead and mutilated at his own desk. In one moment a storm of madness entered the private eye’s life. As he starts hunting for the killer, Hammer is haunted by the message left on his desk: “You die for killing me.” Suddenly, he is in too deep with a lethal blonde who has big ideas, a CIA secret, another set of murders, and the trail of an international hit man named Penta. Now Hammer knows it’s only a matter of time.

13 - Black Alley (1996) – Richard Ferrone 7hrs .51min
Hammer awakens from a coma to find that he is at the center of a search for $89 billion in missing mob money. The Ponti crime family knows that one of Hammer’s old army buddies stashed it where only Hammer could find it. Now they want Hammer to lead them to it.

14 - The Goliath Bone (2008) – Stacy Keach - 7hrs 40min
In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Mike Hammer halts the violent robbery of a pair of college sweethearts who have stumbled onto a remarkable archeological find in the Valley of Elah: the perfectly preserved femur of what may have been the biblical giant Goliath. Hammer postpones his marriage to his faithful girl Friday, Velda, to fight a foe deadlier than the mobsters and KGB agents of his past: Islamic terrorists and Israeli extremists bent upon recovering the relic for their own agendas.

15 - 2009 - Kiss Her Goodbye (2009) – Stacy Keach - 8hrs 32min
Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long. Recuperating in Florida after the mob shoot-out that nearly claimed his life, he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral—and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. But Manhattan in the seventies no longer feels like home. Hammer’s 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 funeral’s doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds that makes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack and for the mysterious woman who had been close to Doolan in his final days. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillane’s classic One Lonely Night.

16 - 2010 - The Big Bang (2010) – Stacy Keach - 7hrs 40min
In midtown Manhattan, Mike Hammer, recovering from a near-fatal mix-up with the Mob, runs into drug dealers assaulting a young hospital messenger. He saves the kid, but the muggers are not so lucky. Hammer considers the rescue a one-off, but someone has different ideas, as indicated by a street-corner knife attack. With himself for a client, Hammer—and his beautiful, deadly partner Velda—take on the narcotics racket in New York just as the streets have dried up and rumors run rampant of a massive heroin shipment due any day. In a New York of flashy discotheques, swanky bachelor pads, and the occasional dark alley, Hammer deals with doctors and drug addicts, hippie chicks and hit men, meeting changing times with his timeless brand of violent vengeance.

17 - Lady, Go Die! (2012) – Stacy Keach – 6hrs 48 min - Mike Hammer, original book 2

This was Mickey Spillane’s lost, never-before-published 1940s Mike Hammer novel, written between I, the Jury and My Gun Is Quick and completed by Spillane’s friend Max Allan Collins

“The next time you pull a gun on me I put one between your eyes.”
Private investigator Mike Hammer and the beautiful Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case from I, the Jury. Walking along the boardwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local cops—and Hammer wades in to defend the victim. When a woman turns up naked—and dead—astride the statue of a horse in the town’s park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of the mysteries Hammer feels compelled to solve.

18 - Complex 90 (2013) - Stacy Keach – 6hr 51min
Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge; he quickly escapes, creating an international incident by getting into a firefight with Russian agents. On his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting upon his return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him. A question dogs our hero: why him? Why does Russia want him back, and why was he singled out to accompany the senator to Russia in the first place?

19 - King of the Weeds (2014) – Stacy Keach – 7hrs 23min
In what Mickey Spillane had planned to be the final Mike Hammer novel, Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer targeting only cops. A killer Mike Hammer’s old friend Captain Pat Chambers had put away many years ago is suddenly freed on new, seemingly indisputable evidence, and Hammer wonders if this outwardly placid, very odd old man might somehow be engineering cop killings that all seem to be either accidental or by natural causes. At the same time, Hammer and Velda are dealing with the fallout—some of it mob, some of it federal government—over the $89 billion cache the detective is (rightly) suspected of finding not long ago.

20 – Kill Me, Darling (2015) – Stacey Keach – 6hrs 39min
The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What’s more, Mike’s pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road and drives to Miami, where he enlists the help of a horse-faced newspaperman and a local police detective. But can they find Velda in time? And what is the connection between the murdered vice cop in Manhattan, and Mike’s ex turning gun moll in Florida?

21 - Murder Never Knocks (2016) – Stacey Keach – 6hrs 15min
Mike Hammer is a popular guy, at least with certain people. Several failed assassination attempts have got him riled, so apart from preventing the kidnapping of a famous New York socialite, he’s hell-bent on figuring out who wants him dead…someone who’s desperate for the kill of his life.

EXTRA – I’ve got them, you get them.

Dead Street (2007) - Richard Ferrone – 5hrs 19min
One of a handful of novels he was working on at the time of his death, this fine, perhaps final, work from hard-boiled fiction icon Spillane (1918–2006) was prepared for publication by Hard Case vet Max Allan Collins. In it, NYPD detective Jack Stang receives word that his old fiancée, Bettie, who supposedly died in a kidnapping-gone-wrong 20 years earlier, is still alive and residing in a small Florida coastal community. The good news is countered by the fact that, in the car crash that was supposed to have killed her, she lost her eyesight and all her memories. Even worse, the men who had her kidnapped in the first place have perfectly good memories and are still looking for her—and willing to kill for the information locked in her damaged brain.

Something Down There (2003 - Jeff Harding
The legendary author of the Mike Hammer mysteries returns with this blade-sharp espionage thriller set in the Caribbean. Mako Hooker has long since retired from his job as a government operative to enjoy a rest of his days fishing in the Bermuda Triangle. But when his fellow fisherman begins falling prey to horrible mailings by mysterious sea entity, Hooker finds out that you can’t retire from The Company until you’re dead. With the unwitting help of his fishing partner Billy Bright, Hooker takes up the case in a novel of twists and turns that will simply astonish.