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Kiss Her Goodbye

by Max Allan Collins
Spillane, Mickey & Max Allan Collins. Houghton Harcourt. May 2011. c.288p. ISBN 9780151014606. $25. F
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OrangeReviewStarAfter the shoot-out in Spillane (1918–2006) and Collins's last collaboration, The Big Bang, Mike Hammer has been recuperating in Florida. He reluctantly returns to New York for the funeral of a cop friend but senses that something isn't right about the death. Another murder pulls Hammer into the world of disco, drugs, and diamond smuggling, and his .45 gets plenty of action. Hammer still likes his dames big, beautiful, and bawdy, and there are plenty in this story. But New York in all her tawdry glory is the dame that will always break Hammer's heart. Spillane may have dreamed up these books, but Collins does a bang-up job writing them.
Reviewed by Andrew Smith , May 01, 2011
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