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The course of true love never did run smooth for PI Mike Hammer. His secretary and partner Velda has walked out on him without explanation, and Mike is just surfacing from a four-month bender. But then an old cop turns up murdered, an old cop who once worked with Velda on the NYPD Vice Squad. What's more, Mike's pal Captain Pat Chambers has discovered that Velda is in Florida, the moll of gangster and drug runner Nolly Quinn. Hammer hits the road...
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Private investigator Mike Hammer and the beautiful Velda go on vacation to a small beach town on Long Island after wrapping up the Williams case from I, the Jury. Walking along the boardwalk, they witness a brutal beating at the hands of some vicious local cops--and Hammer wades in to defend the victim. When a woman turns up naked--and dead--astride the statue of a horse in the town's park, how she wound up this unlikely Lady Godiva is just one of...
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Mike Hammer is on the case, this time hunting the murderer of his old friend and bootlegger-turned-legit-businessman Edward G. Robinson. Already torn up buy the disappearance of Velda, his beloved secretary, Mike Hammer carves a brutal path for vengeance. Drinking heavily, his relationships fraying, his behaviour self-desctructive, Hammer has to track down Robinson's black book, with the names of every corrupt official in town. With deception everywhere,...
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Having just recovered from a deadly confrontation with the Mob, private eye Mike Hammer is forced to save a young hospital worker from some drug dealers. However, chivalry comes with a price, as Hammer is soon attacked by a knife-wielding assailant. Seeing the damage drugs are causing New York, Hammer takes on the city's narcotics racket in one last plunge into the Big Apple's dark and dank underworld.
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The kid was a genius, the father a scientist of international repute. Money was problem. Not shortage of money but the opposite: too much. The sort of money that brings the envious and the scheming clustering like flies round a pile of ripe offal: nieces, nephews, cousins - a family of mean minds and gross appetites. The hired help had its peculiarities too: the chauffeur, an ex-con; the governess, formerly a featured act in strip clubs from New York...
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