"There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate" (New York Times), and it's in full force in this collection of three of his greatest Mike Hammer novels:The Girl Hunters Hammer's voluptuous, long-lost love is targeted by the mastermind assassin known as the Dragon.The Snake Protecting a runaway blonde, Hammer trades barbs and lead with crooked politicos, snarling hoods, and sex-hungry females.The Twisted Thing A kidnapping case links Hammer to a fourteen year-old mystery and the most venomous killer the private eye has ever faced.

    But when his older brother, is shot dead, Junius grips a gun for the first time and starts climbing. Flanked by his best friend, Junius sets his sights on the Rindge Towers, a low-income high-rise looming over the cold streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts—and lorded over by rival drug kingpins. But when one of the Towers’ men draws down on him, Junius is forced to rack up his first kill—and face the hell that breaks loose. Now, with a vicious, crack-addicted enforcer bent on paying Junius back in lead, even his mother thinks his best play is to skip town and lie low…maybe forever.

    Detective Mike Mason now lives in Pacifica, a small coastal town just south of San Francisco, but is drawn back to the rough streets of the city's Tenderloin District by a new client, Laura Grandviewer, who is as beautiful as she is untrustworthy. Lies and half-truths send Mike upon a crooked path, and before he can unsnarl all of the loose ends Laura has set waving in the criminal winds, a growing body count will work to unnerve this hardened detective and end in a climactic splash of blood. The latest in a long line of West Coast private eyes, Mike Mason takes stock of the state of his soul, as he navigates the complexities of a criminal caper, and finds clarity for both in the fog-scrubbed sky viewed from California's winding Highway One. Matthew O'Malley was born and raised in San Francisco and is a current resident of the small town of Pacifica. A detective novel, film noir, and classic radio mystery buff, he is the author of a collection of short stories, Tales for Sale. This is the first novel in the Coastside Detectives series.

    Boyhood friends move on after Regis High School Sal to the family business, Billy to law, and Jack to private investigation after a stint in the NFL. A simple errand for Billy sets Jack off on the race of his life through the streets, bridges, penthouses, subways, offices, churches, and bars in every borough of the city. Jacks loyalty is soon tested but never waivers. Calling on an improbable and outrageous assortment of local characters and his own ability to bluff, charm, and think fast, Jack perseveres for answers he may not want. Knowing the City as only a lifelong New Yorker can, he plays it to his advantage especially since the bad guys are just boys from another neighborhood. Wickedly funny and occasionally poignant, Neighborhood Boys Who Ran is a raucous, energetic tale of what a man can do in size thirteen gazelles.