Black Alley

Black Alley
AuthorMickey Spillane
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
PublisherDutton
Published in English
November, 1996
Pages320


Black Alley (1996) is Mickey Spillane's 13th novel featuring tougher-than-thou New York City private investigator Mike Hammer, and the last one he completed before his death in July 2006. Following the author's demise, the first of "five substantial Mike Hammer manuscripts,"[1] The Goliath Bone, was completed by his friend and colleague Max Allan Collins and published in 2008. Additional books based on Spillane's unfinished manuscripts have since been released, including Lady, Go Die! (2012), Complex 90 (2013) and King of the Weeds (2014). King of the Weeds is a direct sequel to Black Alley.[2]

Plot summary

The novel begins with Mike Hammer recovering in Florida from bullet wounds he received during his infiltration of a drug war on the docks of New York—injuries from which he almost perished. After being thought dead by all of his close friends and family for a period of eight months, he comes back to Manhattan and resumes his normal, exciting life. When an old army buddy, Marcus Dooley, is on his deathbed, he clues Hammer in on a pot of $89 billion he stole and hid from the dons of the mafia. Young, greedy mobsters are also looking for that money, which they should have inherited, had it not been stolen. Mike Hammer takes on the whole mafia, coolly, and in imperfect health.

References

  1. ^ Pierce, J. Kingston. "That Hammer Guy Returns." The Rap Sheet, October 4, 2008.
  2. ^ Pierce, J. Kingston. "Collins Hammers Out His Legacy." The Rap Sheet, April 29, 2014.
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Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Novels
  • I, the Jury (1947)
  • My Gun Is Quick (1950)
  • Vengeance Is Mine (1950)
  • One Lonely Night (1951)
  • The Big Kill (1951)
  • Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)
  • The Girl Hunters (1962)
  • The Snake (1964)
  • The Twisted Thing (1966)
  • The Body Lovers (1967)
  • Survival... Zero! (1970)
  • The Killing Man (1989)
  • Black Alley (1996)
  • The Goliath Bone (2008)
  • The Big Bang (2010)
  • Kiss Her Goodbye (2011)
  • Lady, Go Die! (2012)
  • Complex 90 (2013)
  • King of the Weeds (2014)
  • Kill Me, Darling (2015)
  • Murder Never Knocks (2016)
  • The Will To Kill (2017)
  • Killing Town (2018)
  • Murder, My Love (2019)
  • Masquerade for Murder (2020)
  • Kill Me If You Can (2022)
  • Dig Two Graves (2023)
  • Baby, It's Murder (2024)
Films
  • I, the Jury (1953)
  • Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  • My Gun Is Quick (1957)
  • The Girl Hunters (1963)
  • Margin for Murder (TV, 1981)
  • I, the Jury (1982)
  • Murder Me, Murder You (TV, 1983)
  • More Than Murder (TV, 1984)
  • The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV, 1986)
  • Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV, 1989)
  • Come Die with Me (TV, 1994)
  • Mike Hammer: Song Bird (V, 2003)
Television
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