Mickey Spillane

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1947
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Mike Hammer

1 - I, the Jury (1947)
2 - My Gun Is Quick (1950)
3 - Vengeance Is Mine (1950)
4 - The Big Kill (1951)
5 - One Lonely Night (1951)
6 - Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)
7 - The Girl Hunters (1962)
8 - The Snake (1964)
9 - The Twisted Thing (1966)
10 - The Body Lovers (Sep-1967)
11 - Survival-- Zero (1971)
12 - The Killing Man (1989)
13 - Black Alley (Jun-1996)

Tiger Mann

1 - Day of the Guns (1964)
2 - Bloody Sunrise (1965)
3 - The Death Dealers (1965)
4 - The By-Pass Control (1966)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • I, the Jury

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 1

    I, the Jury It's tough; it's sexy, it's violent; it's pure Mickey Spillane. Mike Hammer, Spillane's hard-boiled private eye, toughs out five demanding cases, coming up against the low life that operates out of New York, one of the world's toughest...

  • My Gun Is Quick

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 2

    As My Gun Is Quick begins, Hammer has just closed another case and he's tired, too tired to drive home without some very strong Java. In an all-night hash-joint the health inspector should have closed down, Mike meets Nancy Sanford, a.k.a. Red. She w...

  • Vengeance Is Mine

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 3

    Vengeance Is Mine No one likes to wake up with a killer hangover. It's worse when you wake up with a hangover, cops, and a dead body all in the same room. It can ruin your whole day. In Vengeance Is Mine, Hammer is determined to learn how Chest...

  • The Big Kill

    • / Private Investigator
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    Mike Hammer - 4

    The Big Kill is blockbusting Spillane in which Mike Hammer slugs it out with a clinging redhead who blocks the trail of a vicious killer. The victim--a reformed ex-con. From the multi-million-copy-selling author--a brutal, brawl-packed, bullet-paced ...

  • One Lonely Night

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 5

    ONE LONELY NIGHT is flaming suspense, sophisticated intrigue, and sinister death. It's a whirlwind of a thriller in which MIKE HAMMER rips into a mob of international thugs.on the prowl for military secrets and clinches with a treacherous society do...

  • Kiss Me, Deadly

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 6

    A beautiful woman's cold-blooded murder has the mark of the Mafia. Although warned to stay away, Hammer won't stop until he gets revenge. Kiss Me, Deadly Starting with a beautiful blonde hitchhiker named Berga Torn, who wore only a trench coat ...

  • The Girl Hunters

    • / Private Investigator
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    Mike Hammer - 7

    In this book Hammer's secretary, Velda, has been missing for seven years, but she's still alive if Hammer can reach in time....

  • Day of the Guns

    Tiger Mann - 1

    Spillane belts out another shocker featuring a brand-new hero, counterspy Tiger Mann, who smashes into a Communist conspiracy involving UN delegates; CIA agents; ex-Nazi spies; a bold-bosomed, no-good beauty who's so kissable and so killable… and w...

  • The Snake

    • / Private Investigator
    • Buy Buy
    Mike Hammer - 8

    Mike Hammer investigates a thirty-year-old murder and the reappearance of a women he loved and who he believed to have killed seven years before....



  • Bloody Sunrise

    Tiger Mann - 2

  • The Death Dealers

    Tiger Mann - 3

    The Mann’s back, playing it low and deadly in a last-chance game of international espionage.   Tiger Mann, America’s superspy, outwits an ace Soviet agent, foils a plot to kill a king, and takes the ruby from the navel of a restless Arabian...

  • Killer Mine

    KILLER MINE Lt. Joe Scanlon manhunts the tawdry dives and deadly alleys of the slum jungle. His cover, a gorgeous lady cop who plays sex bait. His target, a one-shot, assassin who's killing off the killers.... MAN ALONE She was a big, beautiful hook...

  • The By-Pass Control

    Tiger Mann - 4

    One day a scientist decided to play God. He made a small improvisation in the US Intercontinental Ballistics Missile system. A slight change that made it possible to push a button -- and wipe America off the map. Then he disappeared. Tiger Mann...

  • The Twisted Thing

    • / Private Investigator
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    Mike Hammer - 9

    Who snatched the kid? Was it the sadistic cop, the he-man lady, the ex-stripper, or Cousin Alice who always wanted to take off her clothes? And who planned the father's death? The way Hammer figured it, that was the real goal behind kidnapping the fo...

  • The Body Lovers

    Mike Hammer - 10

    MIKE HAMMER smashes into an international underground orgy cult that throws carnal bashes, buys gorgeous, money-lusting models, and winds up their vicious fun with morning-after murder......

  • The Tough Guys

  • Survival-- Zero

    • / Private Investigator
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    Mike Hammer - 11

    MIKE HAMMER, Mickey Spillane's great detective hero, whose fans number in the hundreds of millions the world over, is back again IN A WHIRLPOOL OF EVIL filled with sex, drugs, mangled corpses, perversely cunning killers, wild and willing beauties, a...

  • The Erection Set

    THE ERECTION SET introduces Mickey Spillane's greatest hero yet--Dogeron Kelly, a walking bomb of a man who explodes into block-busting action at the drop of a gun or a lift of a skirt as he goes after a multimillion-dollar mob with vengeance on his...

  • The Deadly Deep



  • The Day the Sea Rolled Back

    A man and his 12-year-old son lose all hope of finding a sunken treasure in the Caribbean. Then one day a strange thing happens to the sea....

  • Ship That Never Was

    Larry and Josh rescue an ancient sailor adrift in a mysterious longboat and soon find themselves involved in finding a lost island and restoring a missing heir to the throne of a kingdom....

  • Me Hood!

    Me, Hood! You, corpse! The bodies were piling up like basketball points, but the name of this game was Mafia Murder. Then some smart cop got the idea to con the coolest hood in New York onto the Department payroll and send him out to do his own viole...

  • The Deep

    A New York ganster returns to his old neighborhood in search of revenge for the death of his partner in crime in this gritty thriller from bestselling novelist Mickey Spillane....

  • Tomorrow I Die

  • The Delta Factor

    Mickey Spillane slings Morgan the Raider supercrook turned US agent, into a one man mission against the hoodlum army of a Latin dictator. His target: a dungeon cell of a torture palace; his sidekick a scorching babe who says no if it kills her....

  • Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: The Comic Strip, Volume 2

  • Last Cop Out

    A gritty mystery featuring the toughest ex-cop in New York from bestselling novelist Mickey Spillane.When he's kicked off the force, Gill Burke knows it's because the mob pulled all the right strings to get him gone. But when some of the top brass ar...

  • The Hammer Strikes Again

  • The Killing Man

    • / Private Investigator
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    Mike Hammer - 12

    A dead man is in Mike Hammer's chair. Mike's ever-loving secretary Velda is on the floor, beaten almost to death. Mike's only clues are a strange note and ten chopped-off fingers. Mike Hammer has a job to do - ripping through layer after layer of sed...



  • Long Wait

    Mickey Spillane socks you a scorching thriller about a tough ex-GI who can't remember his past or forget a buddy's bloody murder. There's plenty of boiling action, excitement, and suspense as well as a bevy of beautiful, cunning women in this whirlwi...

  • Mickey Spillane's Murder Is My Business

    A collection of seventeen all-new hard-boiled murder stories, by such authors as Andrew Greeley, Laurence Block, and Mickey Spillane, offers chilling tales of death delivered for cash. 15,000 first printing....

  • Black Alley

    Mike Hammer - 13

    Mike Hammer is back--and in deeper trouble than ever before. He has the gunning down of an old army buddy to pay back with interest--and two generations of the most powerful family in the Mafia to beat at their own gory games. He has a missing chunk ...

  • Vengeance Is Hers

    An anthology of fifteen mystery stories by women, featuring female sleuths and vigilantes who exact murderous retribution against male evil-doers, includes stories by Joan Hess, Sharyn McCrumb, Nancy Pickard, and Margaret Maron, among others....

  • Private Eyes

    For over fifty years no one has come close to matching mystery author Mickey Spillane's tough-guy voice...or Mike Hammer's knack for getting into trouble. Now, today's premier writers of private eye fiction put a spin on Spillane's classic style in s...

  • Golden Age of Marvel, Volume 2

  • The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 2

    “There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate.” -- The New York TimesWith his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations i...

  • A Century of Noir

  • Something's Down There

    To the casual observer, Mako Hooker looks like any other grizzled fishing-boat captain trawling the Bermuda Triangle. He's content with his nets in the water and a beer in the cooler, but he's hardly your typical fisherman. Hooker is in fact a retire...

  • Byline: Mickey Spillane

    MIKE HAMMER AND OTHER ADVENTURES

    Probably the most influential mystery writer to emerge after the Second World War and certainly the bestseller was Mickey Spillane and his tough P.I. Mike Hammer. I, the Jury, Kiss Me Deadly, and other novels intro...



  • Dead Street

    Hard Case Crime - 37

    For 20 years, former NYPD cop Jack Stang has lived with the memory of his girlfriend's death in an attempted abduction. But what if she weren't actually dead? What if she somehow secretly survived--but lost her sight, and her memory, and everything e...

  • The Pickpocket

    Manhunt, Anniversary Issue December 25 1954THE PICKPOCKETby Mickey SpillaneWillie didn’t like the cops coming to visit him. But he didn’t get sore until he opened his door to a man with a gun. . .1500 Words...

  • Primal Spillane: Early Stories 1941 - 1942

    41 fast-moving short-short stories by the creator of Mike Hammer! Revised and expanded with 14 new stories, including "A Turn of the Tide," a previously unpublished tale.Before Mike Hammer, P.I. made his explosive debut in I, the Jury, author Mickey ...

  • The Girl Behind the Hedge

    Harrison leaped to his death from the window of a hotel room. The door was locked and there was no possible way anyone could have gotten in that room to give him a push. The police were quite satisfied that it was suicide, and everybody that ever cam...

  • Everybody's Watching Me

    When young Joe Boyle is paid to deliver a note reading Cooley is dead. Now my fine fat louse, I'm going to spill your guts all over your own floor, and signed Vetter, he finds himself in the middle of a murderous rat race. Vetter is a mysterious kill...

  • Manhunt, April 1953

    A replica of the April 1953 issue of MANHUNT digest magazine featuring EVERYBODY'S WATCHING ME (part 4 of 4) by Mickey Spillane, ONE LITTLE BULLET by Henry Kane, THE BLUE SWEETHEART by David Goodis, THE G-NOTES by Robert Patrick Wilmot, FAN CLUB by R...

  • Manhunt, March 1953

    A replica of the March 1953 issue of MANHUNT digest magazine featuring EVERYBODY'S WATCHING ME (Part Three) by Mickey Spillane, THE SLEEPER CAPER by Richard S. Prather, THE LOADED TOURIST by Leslie Charteris, THE TEARS OF EVIL by Craig Rice, STOP HIM...

  • The Menace

    BEST-SELLING AUTHOR MICKEY SPILLANE'S MOST TERRIFYING NOVEL.In touristy Peachtree Heights, Georgia, a string of presumably accidental deaths of area physicians rouses the suspicions of Police Chief Blake Cutter. But the former big-city cop's attempts...

  • Dig Two Graves

    Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter 1964. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Mike Hammer’s partner...

  • 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.S...



  • Signed in Blood

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Just sign on the dotted line and your dreams come true ... for seven years, then Hell is in session!Here are twisted soulful tales of terror and humor about those who seek fame, fortune and power the easy way -- but at the greatest expense. Step up b...

Award-Winning Books by Mickey Spillane

The Killing Man
1989 Shamus Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mickey Spillane has published 50 books.

The next book by Mickey Spillane, Baby, It's Murder, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Mickey Spillane, I, the Jury, was published in January 1947.

Yes. Mickey Spillane has 2 series.
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