Mystery Novelist Mickey Spillane
Detective writer Mickey Spillane is one of the world's most popular writers of the hard-boiled private investigator genre. He says his most famous character, Mike Hammer, is a kind of everyman; Spillane has carefully avoided any physical description of the detective.
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