Yes, the Five Star Mickey Spillane book was published last
December: Here're my notes on it:
Mickey Spiullane. Together We Kill, The Uncollected Stories
of Mickey
Spillane, ed. Max Allan Collins.
Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2001.
1st edition. A very mixed collection. The
title story from Cavalier,
1953 is wartime espionage; "The Night I
Died" is a prose version by Max
Allan Collins of a Mike Hammer radio script
from the 1950's; "I'll Die
Tomorrow" (Cavalier, 1960) is a hitman
story; "The Affair of the Dragon
Lady" and 2 autobiographical reminiscences
are non-criminous; "Hot Cat"
is the only story from the UK paperbacks of
the 1960's not to be
previously collected in a US Spillane
collection. The most
controversial story is the science
fictional crime tale, "The Veiled
Woman" (Fantastic, 1952), which Max Allan
Collins says was written by
the editor of Fantastic, Howard Browne,
from a Spillane outline but
which Browne himself (in the introduction
to Incredible Ink) gives a
circumstantial case that it was entirely
ghostwritten without any
Spillane input. It reads like a pastiche,
even a parody, of Spillane's
excesses.
I have a list of all the Five Star short story collections
published
through December, and would be glad to post
it if anyone's interested.
Doug
Douglas G. Greene Professor of History Old Dominion
University Norfolk, VA 23529-0091 Phone 757 683-3949
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