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Killing Town: Mike Hammer Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Mickey Spillane (Author), Max Allan Collins (Author), Dan John Miller (Narrator),

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Mike Hammer steals a ride on a train upstate to Killington. But he is welcomed by a nasty surprise: he is accused by police of raping and murdering a young woman near the freight yards. Roughed up by the cops and facing a murder charge, Hammer's future looks bleak. Only a beautiful blonde, Melba Charles - daughter of powerful Senator Charles - might possibly save him...if he pays the price.

But why would Melba help save a man she has never met? And, more to the point, where is the real murderer?

From a brittle, brown manuscript, the first Mike Hammer novel - begun by Mickey Spillane in the mid-40s and completed 70 years later by Max Allan Collins - is a gift to mystery fans on the occasion of the noir master's 100th birthday.

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Listening Length	5 hours and 6 minutes
Author	Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Narrator	Dan John Miller
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	17 May 2018
Publisher	Journalstone Publishing
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07D43XQXR
Best Sellers Rank	126,904 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 568 in Modern Detective Mysteries 3,996 in Hard-Boiled Mystery

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JOHN.

THE VERY FIRST MIKE HAMMER BOOK

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 August 2018

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I the jury was thought to be the First Mike Hammer book, this novel unknown or hidden for many years and was published to celebrate Mickey Spillane100 year anniversary.
I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy this, but this was as good, if not better than any of the Mike Hammer books I have read over the years.

Robert H Balmer

Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on 24 August 2018

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Good story

Paul.Griffith

"Killing Town" ranks up there with the best of the bunch

Reviewed in the United States on 21 April 2018

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The latest entry into the Hammer files, "Killing Town" is one of the premier mysteries in this series that dates back to 1947. Started before "I, the Jury" but never finished, Max Allan Collins does a remarkable job (as always) of bringing us a masterful, completed work by Mickey Spillane. I have read and own every novel by the late Mickey Spillane. "Killing Town" ranks up there with the best of the bunch! Hammer finds himself in hot water as he is falsely accused of the rape/murder of a local beauty. On a mission for a former Army pal, Hammer goes to Killington, NY to deliver the money his late pal has left his wife. He is undercover since the Mob also wants the money, which it turns out was stolen by the Army buddy. Mystery, suspense, excitement and the Spillane surprise ending all add up to a real page turner. The "brittle, yellowed manuscript" was read by Collins on a visit to Spillane's Murrel's Inlet home. While he and Mickey were talking shop one night Spillane pulled out the unfinished manuscript and handed it to Collins to read. Collins told Spillane it was a "great" story and it is! The collaboration which with the promise of two more Hammer's will double the Hammer novels from 13 to 26. "Killing Town" is a must read for all noir and Hammer aficionados! If you want to read a great noir mystery then look no further than the latest Spillane/Collins collaboration. A mystery that promises not to disappoint!

13 to 26 is a windfall for Hammer aficionados. "Killing Town" is a must read for anyone that loves a great noir mystery and they don't come any better than a Spillane/Collins collaboration.

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Rory Coker

The toughest of all private eyes, in his very first adventure

Reviewed in the United States on 29 April 2018

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Here is the very first (but unfinished) novel Spillane wrote about sublimely tough private eye Mike Hammer, nicely completed by Max Allan Collins. Hammer enters a small town as secretly as possible, actually "riding the rods," on a mission that has to be kept totally hush-hush. But the corrupt local cops promptly frame Hammer for a rape and murder, and once he escapes that doom with the mysterious help of the wealthy family that runs the town, he faces not one but two sets of mob assassins. In other words, the action is continuous, and the writing and plotting are well up to the standards of the later, published Hammer novels of a few years later. As in almost all of Spillane's work, it's a continuous thrill-ride, and you won't be disappointed.

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The first MIKE HAMMER book and wonderful that we finally get to look into the mind of Mike Hammer at the start.

Reviewed in the United States on 19 April 2018

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This is the first Mike Hammer book ever written by Mickey Spillane. It was an incomplete manuscript given by Mr Spillane to Max Collins to complete before Mickey passed away so that it could be completed after Mr Spillane's death.
Since it is the first book, it gives great insight to the personality of Mike Hammer. He is a WWII Vet who saw combat and killed lots of "Bad Guys" and had the medals to prove it. He must have experienced a lot of hand to hand combat as well.

His character comes off as someone who enjoyed killing bad guys and chose a job where he could continue to kill bad guys. He isn't Hard as Nails, He is hard as a railroad spike!! He gets to kill bad guys in this book as well as bedroom scenes with a beautiful blonde.
Much better than "I The Jury." A very great Pulp Fiction book.

We had a High School Coach who landed at Anzio and only 8 of his unit came back. He never got a scratch. After the war he lost part of one finger when it was caught in a hay bailing machine. Coach had a very similar but only hard as nails personality.

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