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# Lady, Go Die!: A Mike Hammer Novel

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    Five Stars.  Hammer Finds Trouble in a Small Resort Town When he Takes a Short Vacation With His Secretary
  

*by D***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 18, 2014*

If you have never read Spillane before, this is a great place to start.  If you have read Spillane, you'll love this book.  This is a terrific, action-packed Mike Hammer story that is great from beginning to end.  There is absolutely nothing negative about this book.  It is great."Lady Go Die!" is the fifth of the seven Mike Hammer novels that Max Allan Collins completed following Mickey Spillane's demise.  Spillane wrote dozens of Mike Hammer novels, starting with "I, The Jury" in 1947.  "Lady Go, Die" is chronologically the second Hammer novel, although Spillane never completed it in his lifetime.  Collins describes the partial manuscript as one of the most exciting finds in the treasure trove of writings that Spillane did not complete.  By completing these manuscripts, Collins has introduced an entirely new generation of readers, including myself, to the Mike Hammer series.These collaborative efforts are seamless.  As the reader, you cannot tell where Spillane stops and Collins begins and vice versa.Although controversial in his time for the frank portrayal of sex and violence in his books, Spillane was loved by the public and was one of the most successful authors of the twentieth century.Hammer is a private eye.  He is known for being brutally violent and metes out his own brand of justice.  It is not unusual for a trail of bodies to be left in his wake as he defends himself against attacks. The Hammer stories are filled with action from cover to cover and "Lady Go Die" is no exception to this rule.The overall plot is fairly typical of the kind of hardboiled PI stuff that was put out in the fifties.  It involves murder, gambling, corruption, a rich blonde who may have killed a few husbands, and some toughnosed  pugs.  But, what makes this different from the typical fifties PI novel is that it is Mike Hammer and nobody was tougher than Hammer was.  Nobody did a better job of mixing it up than Hammer.The story begins with Hammer taking a weekend getaway with his secretary, the irrestible Velda, to a small hamlet on Long Island.  Without even meaning to, Hammer immediately gets involved in a brawl when he sees a little guy getting the crap beat out of him by three goons.  "They were kicking the hell out of the little guy," it begins.  "The big guys seemed to be trying for field goals, their squirming prey pulled in on himself like a barefoot fetus in a ragged t-shirt and frayed dungarees," it is explained.  Hammer can't just walk by the alley and let the bullies get away with this.  He takes a last drag on a cigarette, "slipped out of [his] sportcoat and handed it to [his] raven-haired companion," and sends a right into one goon that "would have broken that nose if there had been enough cartilage left to matter."  Hammer smashed  him in the back of his neck and send him to the alley floor in a "sprawling belly flop."  After rubbing his face in the gravel, Hammer makes mincemeat out of the other two goons.  And, this is just the start of Hammer's weekend in the country.  Nobody ever wrote action sequences better than Mickey Spillane.  And, if you like hardnosed action, this book is your ticket.  When the kid being beaten asks Hammer who he is, Hammer deadpans that he is the Lone Ranger and wait til you get a load of Tonto.This early in the Hammer series Velda is still just his secretary and he hadn't made a pass at her yet, but the sparks are flying whenever she is around.  She is described as a "big, beautiful dark-haired doll" with a "lovely fanny."  "She looked equipped enough to handle anything" from where Hammer was sitting.  Velda, though, is also a licensed PI and carried a .32 in her purse next to her lipstick.  But Hammer is fascinated by her:  "She was as pretty as anything I had ever seen.  Tall, jet black hair, always in that sweeping pageboy that I so admired.  Big and beautiful with more curves than a mountain road...."  Spillane was definitely a romantic.  Hammer and Velda's romance is probably the longest running one in hardboiled fiction.From beginning to end, this is just a fantastic read. This book most definitely rates five stars or more.

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    A surprise
  

*by M***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 3, 2023*

Book arrived today.  A brand new first edition from 2012.  Very happy.

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    A Nostalgic Walk With Mike Hammer
  

*by T***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 12, 2012*

Come back to an earlier simpler time when cops and robbers used rods and gats, Hammer drove a heap, women were dames, broads, dolls, and molls, and cupcakes were "gone" on a guy.  Yes, it is the 1940's and Mike Hammer is loose on the streets as only Mickey Spillane could imagine him with the able assistance of Max Allan Collins.  In "Lady, Go Die!", Collins completes an unfinished Spillane novel that was destined to be the sequel to "I, The Jury" but was never completed for unknown reasons.  It is truly a fun read to relive the prose and dialogue of a master of noir with all the dated references to a time maybe 65 years ago when the lines between good and evil were less blurred than they are today or at least they appeared that way.In "Lady, Go Die!", Mike and Velda, his secretary, assistant, and lover, head to the small town of Sidon, a Long Island beach town.  Mike interrupts the savage beating of a hapless beach bum by two local detectives, one of whom, Dekkert, is a dirty cop having been kicked off the NY force.  Before he knows it, Hammer's code of justice has him knee deep in a mystery involving the death of Sharron Wesley, a former wealthy socialite of dubious background, a high stakes illegal gambling establishment, small town corruption, angry cops, and elements of New York's mob who may or may not sympathize with Mike.  Along the way, Mike shuttles bqack and forth to the City to meet with his buddy, Pat Chambers, as well as with many of his less than steller NY contacts.As Mike peels back the layers of this mystery, he senses they are all related yet somehow they don't seem to fit the usual pattern--is there more than one "perp", are certain elements of the criminal activities unrelated red herrings?  Readers familiar with the older writings of Mickey Spillane will smile at his tough guy dialogue and his take-no-guff attitude as his trigger temper begins to take its toll on the bad guys of Sidon.  Only when Velda goes missing does Mike ratchet up his desperation enough to find the answers he demands, even if it means taking the town apart piece by piece.This is the second collaboration I have read of Collins and Spillane, and I admire Max Allan Collins' devotion to maintaining the "voice", stylings, and texture of Mickey Spilane's iconic character--a character that surely begat most of today's justice seekers from Jack Reacher to Dave Roubidoux.  Yes, the prose is simpler than we expect today and yes, it is filled with dated, even sexist remarks, yet that is the point of Collins' painstaking devotion to recreating the times and milieu of Mike Hammer.  Having grown up reading Mickey Spillane and watching the Mike Hammer Movies and TV shows, I found this an enjoyable, fast, satisfying walk down memory lane.

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