With only thirty pages from Spillane's files, this Mike Hammer novel might be more Collins than Spillane. I don't care if the Easter Bunny wrote it! Just give me one more Mike Hammer novel to sink my teeth into!

Dark, foreboding, grim, Hardboiled, and nasty. Although there are hints of organized crime, this one is almost more of a murder mystery weekend in the big haunted mansion with suspicion falling in turn on each family member.

The story is classic detective work for most of it and veteran Hammer readers will wonder when they'll come against the sudden explanation explosions of violence that Hammer is famous for. Doubt worry, it's all here - more bodies than you can imagine, more twisted motives, more seductive redheads dropping their blouses, gambling halls, sexy money grabbing two bit babes. Bodies floating, daring rescues. Great stuff, indeed. ( )