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Hammer is summoned to a meeting with Jamie Winters, United States Senator from New York, and Jamie's lovely, very smart wife, Nicole, considered by many to be the power behind the throne. Winters is being...

Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by hard-boiled crime master Mickey Spillane and written by New York Times bestseller Max Allan Collins, returns in Masquerade for Murder. Hammer is at a high society...

Mike Hammer hits his 75th anniversary hard, after the disappearance of Velda, in this brand new case set between Kiss Me, Deadly and The Girl Hunters, based on an unproduced screenplay from Mickey Spillane's...

Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case (I, the Jury). Walking romantically along the broadwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands...

From the New York Times bestselling author Max Allan Collins and the iconic master of noir Mickey Spillane comes the first book in the Mike Hammer series. In the midst of a Manhattan snowstorm, Hammer...

"FRIEND, YOU'RE TALKING TO A GUY WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND THE POLICE AT HIS BACK…"Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, seventy-five thousand may not sound like much. But it's all the...

"HE WAS THE KILLER AND I WAS THE TARGET." It should be a mellow time for America's toughest PI, Mike Hammer. He and Velda are planning their overdue nuptials, and his friend Captain of Homicide Pat Chambers...

Notorious hitman Quarry, star of the Cinemax series, comes out of retirement for one last assignment when a media mogul hires him to assassinate a beautiful young…librarian? Twists and sexy surprises...

Mike Hammer is a popular guy. At least with certain people. Several failed assassination attempts have got him riled, so apart from preventing the kidnapping of a famous New York socialite, he's hellbent...

THE LOST FIRST MIKE HAMMER THRILLER! The lost book that begins the iconic Mike Hammer series by Mickey Spillane, finally completed by Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition.Mike Hammer steals...

Mike Hammer's partner Velda has walked out on him, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then Pat Chambers reveals that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly...

Taking a midnight stroll along the Hudson River, Mike Hammer gets more than he bargained for: a partial corpse on an ice floe. The body is that of a butler to a millionaire—also now deceased. Were both...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles...

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for...

The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking for...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder...

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in...

There are monsters in this world. And they used to be us. Now it's time to euthanize to survive in a hospice where Emily, a woman haunted by her past, only wants to do her job and be the best mother possible. Post-infection...

Histoires extraordinaires est un recueil de nouvelles écrites par Edgar Allan Poe, puis traduites et réunies sous ce titre par Charles Baudelaire en 1856. Le recueil comprend les nouvelles suivantes...

Now fully updated and totally revised, this highly regarded classic remains the most comprehensive study available of America’s military history.Called “the preeminent survey of American military history”...

Explore the world of Kelly Creagh’s Nevermore through the work of her inspiration and muse: the masterful Edgar Allan Poe.Poe fans and Kelly fans alike can dive deeper into the world of Isobel, Varen,...

Lorsque le vieux Don Nicholas Giraldi décède, c’est la panique à New York. Selon la rumeur, le Parrain tenait un registre de toutes ses manoeuvres et transactions crapuleuses, qu’il voulait léguer à une...

Nouvelle publication des éditions Arvensa : les oeuvres complètes d’Edgar Allan Poe. Une édition numérique originale sous la direction de de Marité Wilson, complétée de présentations, d’analyses et de...

Private eye Mike Hammer is recuperating in Florida after a mob shootout when he learns that his old mentor from the New York police force has taken his own life. All the evidence points to suicide, but...

One of the greatest of all horror writers, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) also composed pioneering tales that seized upon the scientific developments of an era marked by staggering change. In this collection...

O livro apresenta um dos mais completos e versáteis softwares de gerenciamento de projetos do mundo, ideal para responder à crescente demanda por projetos nos mais variados setores de nossa sociedade. Além...

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want. To avoid the...

The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of commingled...

True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing...

For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence....