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The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2

The Little Death

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The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Vol. 2

By: Max Allan Collins
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
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 Stacy Keach stars as Mickey Spillane's hardboiled private eye Mike Hammer in "The Little Death."

Private eye Mike Hammer is no stranger to murder, but this time he has two to untangle - the killing of the Captain, a legless, homeless panhandler, dismissed by the police as minor, and the slaying of gambling kingpin Marty Wellman, whose lady friend, Helen Venn, turns to the P.I. for help when the Mob fingers her for the next kill. Seems the new kingpin, Carmen Rich - with whom Hammer has a violent history - thinks Helen made off with ten mil in skim money courtesy of her late lover, or anyway, so Rich claims. But Mike Hammer knows a damsel in distress when he sees one and takes up Helen's cause, igniting a series of hit attempts on the P.I. by a small army of out-of-town shooters - some as far out of town as Cuba. Such minor distractions can't prevent the toughest detective of them all from solving two murders and avenging a "little death" in a big way.

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Critic reviews

  • Audie Award Winner, Original Work, 2011

Vol. 1 of this Blackstone series was a finalist for the prestigious 2009 Audie® Award for Distinguished Achievement in Production. Here Vol. 2 continues this fully-dramatized "theater-of-the-mind" audio adventure enhanced with sound effects and music.
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Very much of its time , a touch sexist and a bit cheesy in parts but enjoyable

I liked it

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Mike, what a man! A fun listen, made me smile all through my dog walk.

Perfect cheese

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Love the old Mike Hammer stories, especially the era in which they are set, so a bit of the ordinary hearing Mike Hammer in the modern world

Mike Hammer with a cell?

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fantastic detective story kept me enthralled all the way and the cast were fantastic

gripping pulp

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Very tongue in cheek production, I wouldn't use a credit on it but worth a listen if on membership.
I loved how he racked a cricket score of dead bodies throughout the plot line. Plot line and ending can be seen from a mile off , but enjoyable rubbish

So bad it's good! Gum shoe detective

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