His The ship that never was, c1982 t.p. (Mickey Spillane)
New York times WWW site, July 18, 2006 (Mickey Spillane; b. Frank Morrison Spillane, Mar. 9, 1918, Brooklyn (Mickey was a nickname for his baptismal name, Michael); d. yesterday [July 17, 2006], Murrells Inlet, S.C., aged 88; creator of Mike Hammer, the heroic but frequently sadistic private detective who blasted his way through some of the most violent novels of the 1940s and 50s)
