The first of these was The Goliath Bone (2008), in which Mike Hammer was updated to a post-9/11 21st century Manhattan, followed by The Big Bang (2010), which took place in the 1960s. Spillane with some scraps of stories the latter had started but never finished. Or perhaps it will someday? So far none of them have taken place during the 1952-1962 hiatus, but this is the third collaboration of Max Allan Collins with Mr. Let’s reverse that to say that what was undone can’t be done. I don’t suppose that I’m the only one who’s always been disappointed by that ten-year gap between Number Six ( Kiss Me Deadly, 1952) and Number Seven ( The Girl Hunters, 1962), but for whatever reason, it’s there and what’s done can’t be undone. The first six were gangbusters, though, and there are parts of them that once read are simply not forgotten. I am submitting this as a preface to the rest of the review just to let you know where things stand. I read the first six Mike Hammer books back when Mickey Spillane first wrote them – well maybe a little later - but I haven’t read them since, nor I have read anything else he wrote, except a short story, novelette or two. MICKEY SPILLANE & MAX ALLAN COLLINS – Kiss Her Goodbye.
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