Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hard-boiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times best seller Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder.

Hammer is at a high society party when a wealthy and well-respected man, Colby, is hit by a car and badly injured. When all he expected was a night on the town, Mike is hired to find out who was driving the car. His search leads him on a trail of murders, the victims often exhibiting the same kind of strangulation as the cause of death. How are they connected to an accident involving Corby, and why is the man himself acting so strangely?

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Listening Length	5 hours and 33 minutes
Author	Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins
Narrator	Stefan Rudnicki
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	17 March 2020
Publisher	Skyboat Media
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B082T5DPD2
Best Sellers Rank	124,871 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 553 in Modern Detective Mysteries 577 in Private Investigator Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) 3,929 in Hard-Boiled Mystery

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Stewart

Always a very good Read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2020

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I collect Mickey Spillane books and the ones completed by Max Allan Collins, not read this yet as it's in a queue but gave it Stars for the Authors.

Dave Wilde

The World of Mike Hammer

Reviewed in the United States on 18 March 2020

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Masquerade For Murder is the latest of a seemingly endless supply of Spillane notes and outlines that Collins has worked into new Mike Hammer stories. Purists might question the decision to continue the series posthumously, but the rest of us eagerly turn the pages of any Mike Hammer book. Visiting with old friends like Mike and Velda never gets old. This is an old fashioned detective story that pays homage to an aging Mike Hammer, now recognizable as a celebrity to anyone over fifty and still known to explode in violence when the situation warrants it.

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Trista Jane

A Must Read

Reviewed in the United States on 26 April 2020

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Prior to reading Masquerade for Murder, I had no idea who Mike Hammer was, what he was about, and what I was about to get myself into. I hadn’t read a crime novel in about 15 years, and thought I’d give it a shot.
The moment I opened to the first page of chapter one, I knew I had opened a portal to another time. I immediately fell in love with the narrative. It’s buttery and exceptionally descriptive. I could almost feel the November chill swirling from between the pages.
Even though this book takes place deep and late into Mike Hammer’s life, Max Allan Collins did an excellent job of really summing up a whole lot of past effortlessly. I never felt like I was jumping into the middle of a long running series and I was never confused on who was who, and what they did. I felt like I was right there with Mike on this whirlwind of a case.
Mike Hammer became someone I wanted to know more about. Needless to say, I have a lot of reading to do, and next time I am in New York, I might just imagine a man in a long coat and a porkpie fedora out of the corner of my eye.

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Classic Work by Spillane and Collins

Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2020

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I really enjoyed this Mike Hammer novel. I've been a fan of Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins for a lot of years now and I am always grateful when I see a new novel bearing their byline. If have ever read Spillane and Collins, you will read this and any of these co-written works without really knowing how much is Mickey and how much is Max; the writing is that spot on and just that damned good. Masquerade for Murder is among my favorites in this series, including those penned by Mickey Spillane alone. The writing is brisk, flowing easily and indicative of the kind of starkly brutal, at times poetic noir that can be found in any classic Hammer novel. If you have yet to read one of these co-written novels, you can't get a better start than with Masquerade for Murder.

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M.A.C and Mike Hammer a killer combination strike again!

Reviewed in the United States on 27 April 2020

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I have to hand it to Mickey Spillane in choosing to make friends and collaborate with Max Allan Collins before his passing, and for entrusting such great kernels of genius to Max. If you enjoy works by either, you’ll enjoy all the works of the both of them. I wish I could sit down and have a beer, or several more (preferably Hamm’s) just the three of us. As Mickey passed in 2006, that won’t happen for any of us, but you can continue rest assured that you can still hear his voice through Collins’ continuation of the Hammer legacy. This book was HOT, read fast and delivered on the premise on which it was based. A tip of the fedora to you Max, you continue to deliver classic Spillane, just the way he would have wanted.

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