The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane

Item Details

Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Library, 1989, Leather

Signed First Edition, Very Good

The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane. Franklin Library - Signed First Edition Society, Franklin Center, PA. 1989. Full leather. Signed on the front end paper by Spillane. Bound in fine genuine red leather, 22kt gold-stamped spine accents, raised spine hubs, gilt stamped cover design, milled acid-neutral paper, Smyth-sewn pages, gilded page edges with a permanent satin ribbon page-marker sewn in. The Killing Man is a typical Mike Hammer murder mystery, only in this story, the tables are turned and bad things are happening to Mike Hammer himself. Mike walks into his office to discover his beloved secretary, Velda, unconscious, the brutal murder of ex-mobster Anthony DiCica at Mike's desk, and a note from the killer signed Penta. Mike is in the middle and taking hits from the DA's office, the FBI, the CIA, and the mob, while being assumed to have been the intended victim when DiCica was murdered. Hammer then leaps into action, finding the perpetrator. Mickey Spillane is the quintessential detective story author and Mike hammer is the hero in most. Beautiful clean tight copy.