September 2006

His Pen Was Quick

On July 17, Mick­ey Spillane, cre­ator of the infa­mous Mike Ham­mer PI series, died. He was 88, and by all accounts he lived a pret­ty cool life.

In addi­tion to writ­ing sev­er­al best­selling nov­els that read­ers adored, Spillane played a mys­tery writer on the 70s TV show Colum­bo, appeared in sev­er­al com­mer­cials for Miller Lite beer, and mar­ried a hot sec­ond wife, Sher­ri Manilou, who posed for the cov­er of his nov­el The Erec­tion Set.

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