Mike Hammer - Dig Two Graves

“The amusing conceit of a town for snitches allows full rein for Hammer’s signature blend of violence, chastely described lust, and revenge served cold, with several surprising twists thrown in as a bonus. Like the denizens of its imagined retirement community, you just can’t keep this franchise down.” Kirkus PRAISE FOR MICKEY SPILLANE Mike Hammer is an icon of our culture.- The New York Times A superb writer. Spillane is one of the century’s bestselling authors.- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) PRAISE FOR MAX ALLAN COLLINS [Collins] has no problem serving up Hammer the same way Spillane did, with plenty of mayhem, violence, and sex, dished out in straight-ahead, no-frills prose, right on target, so direct, with no room for sissy stuff like digressions, detours, or doubts. Hammer is a shark that needs to keep swimming to survive, and Collins tosses plenty of chum into these waters… It’s the real deal, folks: primo, primal detective fiction. Pass the peanuts.- Mystery Scene Max Allan Collins is the closest thing we have to a 21st century Mickey Spillane.- ThisWeek (Ohio) Collins’ witty, hardboiled prose would make Raymond Chandler proud.- Entertainment Weekly

Mickey Spillane

Mickey Spillane was the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II. His Mike Hammer novels fed the public’s appetite for sexy, violent, straight-talking crime stories. He also starred as Mike Hammer in The Girl Hunters. Mickey Spillane died at the age of 88 in 2006.

Max Allan Collins

Max Allan Collins was named a Grand Master in 2017 by the Mystery Writers of America and is a three-time winner of the Private Eye Writers of America’s Life Achievement award. His graphic novel Road to Perdition became the Academy Award-winning film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks. His other comics credits include the syndicated strip Dick Tracy, Batman, and, with artist Terry Beatty, his own Ms. Tree and Wild Dog.

Collins has completed fourteen Mike Hammer novels begun by Mickey Spillane, and his Hammer audio novel The Little Death with Stacy Keach won an Audie Award in 2011. He recently adapted the first of his Nathan Heller novels into a ten-part audio drama, True Noir.

For five years, Collins was the sole licensing writer for TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, creating best-selling novels, graphic novels, and video games. His movie tie-in novels have appeared on the USA Today and New York Times bestseller lists, including Saving Private Ryan, Air Force One, and American Gangster.

Max has written and directed two documentaries and seven feature films, including the Lifetime movie Mommy (1996). He scripted The Expert, a 1995 HBO World Premiere, and the film-festival favorite The Last Lullaby (2009), based on his Quarry novels, which were also adapted as a 2016 TV series by Cinemax, for which Max wrote two scripts. Collins’ properties have also been optioned by Skydance, Lionsgate, and CBS Films. His most recent self-scripted/directed indie films are Mickey Spillane’s Encore for Murder (2022), Blue Christmas (2023), and Death by Fruitcake (2024).

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