Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Masquerade for Murder

 

Okay, a new Mike Hammer book from Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins! It was pretty good. 

Mike and Velda are leaving a restaurant one evening (remember when we could actually eat in restaurants? Good times) when they witness a hit and run. A pretty rare Ferrari nearly kills young Vincent Colby, who is the son of a wealthy investment banker and in the profession himself. Vincent survives but undergoes an alarming personality change as a result of the accident, having fits of violent anger. His father, Vance, hires Mike to look into Vincent's personal life to see who might want to kill him. Turns out young Vincent was not quite the upstanding young man his father thought he was. There were some good, fun classic Hammer moments. 

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