Mickey Spillane talks to the CBC about Mike Hammer in 1962:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
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“Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.”
Mickey Spillane (quoted in Jon Winokur, W.O.W.: Writers on Writing)