Noun
United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918)
Source: WordNetThe fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. Flannery O’Connor
Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 279. Between 1983 and 1989, Mickey Spillane 's hardboiled private eye Mike Hammer was played with wry gusto by Stacy Keach in a series and several stand-alone television films (an unsuccessful revival followed in 1997–98). Source: Internet
Among those is a wonderful letter he penned to publisher Knopf that explains how his work differs from that of Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, and other contemporaries. Source: Internet
During this period, the imprint’s roster grew quickly to include Donald E. Westlake, Patricia Highsmith, James Ellroy, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, and Raymond Chandler. Source: Internet
Most of my reading material when I was a kid came from a drugstore rack: lots of Agatha Christie, heavy on the Mickey Spillane, and Edgar Rice Burroughs were the norm, along with those highly influential comic books. Source: Internet
In 1947, A new writer, Mickey Spillane, emerged on the mystery scene. Source: Internet