Kiss Her Goodbye - Softcover

Collins, Max Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0547541201 ISBN 13: 9780547541204

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2012

Synopsis

"Entertaining . . . proof of how well Max Allan Collins has managed to mimic Spillane's style." -- The Onion, A. V. Club

Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long when he learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Suspicious, Hammer returns for the funeral. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral home's doorstep, he gets drawn into the hunt for Nazi diamonds, a mysterious beauty who was close to Doolan in his final days, and a gang of drug racketeers. Soon Hammer is hobnobbing with coke-snorting celebrities at a notorious disco. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, sparking the wildest showdown since Spillane's classic One Lonely Night.

"[Spillane's and Collins's] risks pay off on the page, resulting in some of the finest novels of their respective careers . . . Kiss Her Goodbye is a throwback in the best sense of the word: it reminds us why Spillane was so good in the first place; and Collins, too . . . This is action-mystery par excellence." -- Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book Description:

HMH HardcoverPrevious ISBN 978-0-15-101460-6

From the Inside Flap:

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The New Mike Hammer novel

Mike Hammer has been away from New York too long. Patching himself up in Florida after a deadly mob shootout, the private eye learns that an old friend on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. But Manhattan in the 1970s no longer feels like home. Hammer s lovely, longtime partner, Velda, has disappeared after he broke it off for her own safety, and his office is shut down. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral home s doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds that makes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack, and for the mysterious beauty who had been close to Doolan in his final days. But drug racketeers, who had it in for the tough old police inspector, attract Hammer s attention as well. Soon he is hobnobbing with coke-snorting celebrities at the notorious disco Club 52 and playing footsie with a sleek lady D.A., a modern female on the make for old-fashioned Hammer. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillane s classic One Lonely Night."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0547541201
• ISBN 13: 9780547541204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288