Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who created detective Mike Hammer, died Monday in Murrells Inlet, S.C. He was 88. Critics didn’t approve of his hard-boiled, workmanlike style, but the ...

Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), author of the classic crime novels, “I, The Jury” and “Kiss Me Deadly,” in conversation in 2003 with Richard A. Lupoff, introduced by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A.

Mike Hammer tracks down the villain, the symbolically named Dr. Charlotte Manning, a psychiatrist. Just about everybody in America in the fifties read the scene in which she strips as she pleads with ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Mickey Spillane, the macho mystery writer who wowed millions of readers with the shoot-'em-up sex and violence of gumshoe Mike Hammer, died Monday. He was 88. Spillane's death ...