- One Lonely Night
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1st edition (publ. E.P. Dutton)
One Lonely Night (1951) is Mickey Spillane's fourth novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.
Plot summary
After having been berated by a Judge, Mike Hammer goes for a walk and comes across a terrified woman and her pursuer. He kills the man but the woman, terrified, jumps to her death from a bridge. Each possessed an oddly shaped green card, a clue that Hammer pursues. His friend in the police, Pat Chambers, identifies them as membership cards for the local Communist Party. Mike attends a meeting and is mistaken for a spy from Moscow. At the same time, the FBI are searching for some lost secret papers and the career of a popular politician is threatened.
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Novels 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)Films 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) • Come Die With Me (TV, 1994) • Mike Hammer: Song Bird (V, 2003)Television Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958-1960) • Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984-1985) • The New Mike Hammer (1986-1987) • Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997-1998)Categories:- 1951 novels
- Novels by Mickey Spillane
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