Spillane
Proper noun
Meaning
Spillane (plural Spillanes)
A surname from Irish.
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The 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.
Back in London, Irish musician Davy Spillane told Emmerson about a belief that nomadic Celts lived in Africa or India before they migrated to Western Europe.
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).
Shane Ryan, Brian Ó Beaglaoich and Killian Spillane are others from that minor outfit who graduated and featured in the unsuccessful bid to deny Dublin five-in-a-row last September.
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.
As I got older, I read Micky Spillane and John D. McDonald, both which got me hooked on mysteries.