"I'm here to chew bubblegum and
kick ass! ..and I'm all outah bubblegum!."
Here is a short list of the writers that
have influenced me and my "style" of
writing. Robert Parker
Mickey Spillane
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"Writing Spenser is like drinking cold beer on a hot summer afternoon,"
RBP in the Boston Globe, 1984.
The Spenser Novels
Godwulf Manuscript 1973
God Save the Child 1974
Mortal Stakes 1975
Promised Land 1976
The Judas Goat 1978
Looking for Rachel Wallace 1980
Early Autumn 1981
A Savage Place 1981
Ceremony 1982
The Widening Gyre 1983
Valediction 1984
Catskill Eagle 1985
Taming a Sea Horse 1986
Pale Kings and Princes 1987
Crimson Joy 1988
Playmates 1989
Stardust 1990
Pastime 1991
Double Deuce 1992
Paper Doll 1993
Walking Shadow 1994
Thin Air 1995
Chance 1996
Small Vices 1997
Sudden Mischief 1998
Hush Money 1999
Hugger Mugger 2000
Potshot 2001
Widow's Walk 2002
Back Story 2003
Bad Business 2004
Spenser Related Publications
Spenser's Boston (Japan) 1989
Spenser's Boston (US) 1994
Surrogate (300) 1982
Surrogate (50) 1982
Early Spenser 1989
New Spenser Collection 1996
Other Fiction
Wilderness 1980
Love and Glory 1980
Three Weeks in Spring
(With Joan Parker) 1982
All Our Yesterdays 1994
Gunman's Rhapsody 2001
Jesse Stone Novels
Night Passage 1997
Trouble in Paradise 1998
Death In Paradise 2001
Stone Cold 2003
Sunny Randall Novels
Family Honor 1999
Perish Twice 2000
Shrink Rap 2002
Raymond Chandler
Poodle Springs 1990
Perchance to Dream 1991
Non-Fiction
The PI in Hammett and Chandler 1984
Parker on Writing (75) 1985
Parker on Writing (300) 1985
A Year At The Races 1990
Training With Weights 1990
Boston: History in the Making 1999
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Mickey Spillane
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"I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of
hair and don't wear eyeglasses" he says. "And I've kept the smoke coming
out of the chimney for a very long time."
(Mickey Spillane, 2004)
The Mike Hammer Novels
I, the Jury 1947
My Gun Is Quick 1950
Vengeance Is Mine! 1950
The Big Kill 1951
The Long Wait 1951
One Lonely Night 1951
Kiss Me, Deadly 1952
The Deep 1961
The Girl Hunters 1962
The Snake 1964
The Twisted Thing 1966
The Body Lovers 1967
The Delta Factor 1967
The Killing Man 1989
Black Alley 1996
Tiger Mann Novels
Day of the Guns (1964; Tiger Mann)
Bloody Sunrise (1965; Tiger Mann)
The Death Dealers (1965; Tiger Mann)
The By-Pass Control 1966; Tiger Mann)
Other Novels
Survival Zero 1970
The Erection Set 1972
The Last Cop Out 1973
The Ship That Never Was 1982
Something Down There 2003 Short Stories
"Fresh Meat for a Raider" (Winter 1941, Sub-Mariner Comics #4; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Clams Make the Man" (1942, Joker #2; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Sea of Grassy Death" (February 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #28; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Ship In the Desert" (March 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #29; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Jinx Heap" (March 1942, Blue Bolt, Vol. 2, #10; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Lumps of Death" (April 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #30; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Killer's Return" (May 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #31; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Terror in the Grass" (May 1942, Blue BoIt Vol. 2, #12; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Creature of the Deep" (May 1942, Target Comics, #27; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Trouble - Come and Get It" (Spring 1942, 4 Most Comics #2; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Tight Spot" (Spring 1942, Sub-Mariner Comics #5; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Devil Cat" (Spring 1942, Human Torch #7; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"A Case of Poison Ivy" (June 1942, Blue Bolt, Vol. 3 #1; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Last Ride" (June 1942, Marvel I Mystery Comics #32; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Jap Trap" (July 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #33; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Curse of Tut Ken Amen" (August 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #34; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"'Woodsman's Test" (Summer 1942, 4 Most Comics #3; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Woim Toins" (Summer 1942, All Winners Comics #5; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Sea Serpent" (Summer 1942, Sub-Mariner Comics #6; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Flight Over Tokyo" (Summer 1942, Human Torch #8; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"A Shot in the Dark" (August 1942, Blue Bolt, Vol. #3, #3; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Undersea Champion" (August 1942, Target Comics #30; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Satan Himself!" (September 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #35; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Man in the Moon" (Fall 1942, All Winners #6; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Woe Is Me!" (October 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #36; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Scram, Bugs!" (November 1942, Marvel Mystery Comics #37; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Spook Ship" (November 1942, Target Comics #33; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"Sky Busters" (December 1942, Target Comics #34; also 2004, Primal Spillane)
"The Veiled Woman" (November/December1952, Fantastic; sci-fi; ghost-written by Howard Browne,
from an outline by Spillane)
"Together We Kill" (January 1953, Cavalier; also 2001, Together We Kill)
"Everybody's Watching Me" (January-April 1953, Manhunt; serialized in four issues; 2001, Pulp Masters)
"The Girl Behind the Hedge" (October 1953, Manhunt; AKA "The Lady Says Die!")
"The Night I Died" (1953; Mike Hammer; originally an unproduced radio play, tidied up and presented as a
short story by Max Allan Collins in 1998's Private Eyes, edited by Spillane and Collins)
"The Pickpocket" (December 1954, Manhunt; 1984, Tomorrow I Die)
"Tonight My Love" (1954, released as 33 1/3 and 45 rpm records Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Story)
"The Screen Test of Mike Hammer" (July 1955, Male)
"Tomorrow I Die, (February 1956, Cavalier)
"Stand Up and Die!" (June 1958, Cavalier; 1984)
"Me, Hood!" July 1959, Cavalier)
"I'll Die Tomorrow" (March 1960, Cavalier)
"The Seven Year Kill" (July 1960, Cavalier)
"Kick It or Kill" (July 1961, Cavalier; AKA "The Girl Hunters")
"The Affair with the Dragon Lady" (March 1962, Cavalier)
"Hot Cat" (April 1964, Saga)
"The Bastard Bannerman" (June 1964, Saga)
"The Flier (1964, The Flier; AKA "Hot Cat")
"Return of the Hood" (1964, Return of the Hood; 1969, Me, Hood!)
"The Seven Year Kill" (1964, The Flier)
"The Big Bang" (January 1965, Saga; AKA "Return of the Hood)
"Death of the Too-Cute Prostitute" October 1965, Man's Magazine; AKA "Man Alone")
"The Gold Fever Tapes" (1973, Stag Annual #15; 1984, Tomorrow I Die)
"The Dread Chinatown Man" (August 1975, True)
"Toys for the Man-Child" (August 1975, True)
"Sex Is My Vengeance" (1984, Tomorrow I Die)
"Trouble... Come and Get It" (1984, Tomorrow I Die).
"The Killing Man" (December 1989, Playboy; Mike Hammer)
Other collections
Me, Hood! (1963)
Return of the Hood
Killer Mine (1968)
The Flier (1964)
The Tough Guys (1969)
Tomorrow I Die (1984)
Together We Kill: The Uncollected Stories of Mickey Spillane (2001)
Collection of "lost" stories, edited by Lynn Myers and Max Allan Collins.
Primal Spillane (2004).
Another collection of pulp stories, featuring hard-boiled, crime, WWII, suspense, thrillers, monster stories
& even a couple of SF stories. Edited by Lynn Myers and Max Allan Collins..
Byline: Mickey Spillane! (2004)
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