The franchise centers around the character of Mike Hammer, a tough and hardboiled private investigator with a no-nonsense approach to solving crimes. First introduced in the 1947 novel “I, the ...

CLEARWATER — From the moment the title character takes center stage, Mike Hammer — Encore for Murder is sold. Rarely does one actor own an entire production the way Gary Sandy owns this world ...

Matthew McConaughey and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto are reuniting for a new Mike Hammer movie. McConaughey played Detective Rustin “Rust” Cohle alongside Woody Harrelson as Detective ...

Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer is actually based on a story by Spillane himself, “The Night I Died,” originally written in the 1950s as an unproduced screenplay.

The Rev. Mike Hammer, a well-known Catholic priest in Milwaukee who ministered to people with HIV and AIDs and earned the nickname "the bishop of the east side," is being remembered for his ...

Spillane was lambasted by critics, including, according to Spillane, one "literary type" who said it was disgraceful that the author then had seven of the world's 10 best-selling books of all time.

Mickey Spillane, 88, who died July 17 in Murrells Inlet, S.C., was one of the world's most popular mystery writers. His specialty was tight-fisted, sadistic revenge stories, often featuring his ...

Mike Hammer is a step above — i.e. more violent and brutal — than some of the other hard-boiled detectives of his era like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. It sounds like ideal material for the ...