My Gun Is Quick
My Gun Is Quick (1950) is Mickey Spillane's second novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer. It was the basis for the 1957 film of the same name.
Plot summary
The story starts with Mike Hammer meeting a red-headed prostitute in a diner. She is hassled by a man she appears to know and fear but Mike deals with him swiftly. Despite little conversation, he gives her some money to get a real job and leaves. The next day she is found dead, the victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident. Mike does not believe this and proceeds to hunt down her murderers. In the process he uncovers a massive and powerful prostitution ring in New York.
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- I, the Jury (1947)
- My Gun Is Quick (1950)
- Vengeance Is Mine (1950)
- One Lonely Night (1951)
- The Big Kill (1951)
- Kiss Me, Deadly (1952)
- The Girl Hunters (1962)
- The Snake (1964)
- The Twisted Thing (1966)
- The Body Lovers (1967)
- Survival... Zero! (1970)
- The Killing Man (1989)
- Black Alley (1996)
- The Goliath Bone (2008)
- The Big Bang (2010)
- Kiss Her Goodbye (2011)
- Lady, Go Die! (2012)
- Complex 90 (2013)
- King of the Weeds (2014)
- Kill Me, Darling (2015)
- Murder Never Knocks (2016)
- The Will To Kill (2017)
- Killing Town (2018)
- Murder, My Love (2019)
- Masquerade for Murder (2020)
- Kill Me If You Can (2022)
- Dig Two Graves (2023)
- Baby, It's Murder (2024)
- I, the Jury (1953)
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
- My Gun Is Quick (1957)
- The Girl Hunters (1963)
- Margin for Murder (TV, 1981)
- I, the Jury (1982)
- Murder Me, Murder You (TV, 1983)
- More Than Murder (TV, 1984)
- The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV, 1986)
- Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV, 1989)
- Come Die with Me (TV, 1994)
- Mike Hammer: Song Bird (V, 2003)
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–1960)
- Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984–1985)
- episodes
- The New Mike Hammer (1986–1987)
- Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998)
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