[Rummyfan]

From The Girl Hunters, author takes hands-on approach to his material: Mickey Spillane with Shirley Eaton.

An American original.

[Rummyfan]

I miss the old-school hardboilers. Obviously, it's an invented, stylized, heightened form of dialogue, as artificial as recitative or any other dramatic convention, and with a certain musicality:

HAMMER: You're never around when I need you.

VELDA: You never need me when I'm around.

But it was a plausible and appealing voice for tough guys. Today in the absence of such conventions we have supposed verisimilitude, so that, instead of hard men saying "I've had some punks tougher than you'll ever be on the end of a gun and I pulled the trigger just to watch their expressions change", they say f**k-f**k-f**ketty-f**k all night long, and we think that's what makes it "real".

[grobdriver]

Jack Reacher with a girl friend?

[Mr Ramsbotham]

In 1946, he came up with a comic-book detective called "Mike Danger" ....

Paternal relation of Carlos, no doubt.

[SJSAMPLE]

I prefer Ralph Meeker in “Kiss Me, Deadly.”

[elcid1970]

Shirley Eaton...the Bond Girl in “Goldfinger” (sigh).

[Terry L Smith]

Mr. Mickey was one of those authors in my list of reading/learning to write fiction with my own ‘voice’.

The axiom: ‘never use more than two syllables’, was well eomonstrated in his stories.

Hammer’s beloved 1911 was more than just a pistol, with the same reverence as Conan’s father spoke about the sword. Any GI could instantly know what he felt about the piece of hardware that pulled their butt out of the fire.

Mr. Mickey’s tomes are still good reads these days, too.

“Happy Birthday, Mr. Mickey!”