|| The New American Library is publishing two
volumes of the best of
|| his novels, from the late 1940s and early
'50s. In books like "I,
|| the Jury," "One Lonely Night" and "Kiss Me,
Deadly" (all included
|| in the collections, and all starring Mike
Hammer), Spillane secured
|| a permanent place for himself in the pantheon
of such mystery
|| greats as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler
and Ross Macdonald.
||
|| A fall rollout is being planned for "A Century
of Noir" (also from
|| NAL), a volume containing some of Spillane's
rare magazine stories
|| from the same era, which he edited with
mystery writer Max Allan
|| Collins. An independent documentary of
Spillane's life was recently
|| completed, and Jay Bernstein, producer of a
Mike Hammer TV series
|| that ran on CBS during the '80s, is gearing up
to sell prime time
|| on another incarnation of the private
detective, with a twist
|| worthy of some of Spillane's best
shockers.
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