Baby, It's Murder

Mike Hammer's deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1970.

Six years after the events of Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation-this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling's seventeen-year-old sibling, Willa.

Willa must deal with the attention of two boys vying for her affection-Hammer preferring the good kid from a wealthy family over the long-haired doper with an Easy Rider vibe. When Willa gets hooked on heroin, Hamm-filled with contempt for dope dealers-goes on a rampage. He will find the man behind the drug racket and teach him what shooting up is all about.

But a final resolution awaits him in the future at that funeral....

Auteur

Mickey Spillane is the legendary crime writer credited with igniting the explosion of paperback publishing after World War II as a result of the unprecedented success of his Mike Hammer novels, feeding 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.