The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly (American Gangster
cover) has a short, positive ("A-") review of what is
presumably Spillane's last novel, Dead Street, an original
paperback. Introduces a tough former cop turned private eye.
The review notes that Max Allan Collins wrote the final
chapters, using "Spillane's copious notes."
Those of you who've been criticizing Spillane's earlier works
might be amused by the last Mike Hammer, Black Alley.
Published in 1996. In it you'll find an aging, vulnerable
Hammer (recovering from near-fatal wounds), still tough, but
pausing to have dinner at Le Cirque ("real New York eating at
its best"), discussing the pleasure of hearing Wagner
performed at the old Metropolitan Opera House and, finally,
deciding to make an honest woman of Velda.
Dick Lochte
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