Order of Mickey Spillane Books
Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) was an American author of hardboiled crime fiction, most notably his Mike Hammer series. Over 225 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and at one time, seven his books were in the top 15 in the list of all-time bestselling novels in the United States. At the time, his work had more sex and violence than was the norm. Following his death, his Mike Hammer character would be picked up by his friend Max Allan Collins.
Mickey Spillane became a published author in 1947 with the novel I, the Jury. The final novel he would write start-to-finish was Something Down There in 2003, with 2007’s Dead Street being finished by Collins. Below is a list of Mickey Spillane’s books (including books by Max Allan Collins based on his work) in order of when they were originally released:
Publication Order of Mike Hammer Books
(with Max Allan Collins)
Publication Order of Tiger Mann Books
| Day of the Guns | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Bloody Sunrise | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Death Dealers | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The By-Pass Control | (1966) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Caleb York Books
(with Max Allan Collins)
| The Legend of Caleb York | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Big Showdown | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bloody Spur | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Last Stage to Hell Junction | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hot Lead, Cold Justice | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Shoot-Out at Sugar Creek | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| The Long Wait | (1951) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Deep | (1961) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Delta Factor | (1968) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Erection Set | (1972) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Cop Out | (1973) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Day the Sea Rolled Back | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Ship That Never Was | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Something's Down There | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dead Street | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Consummata | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Stand | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Menace | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
(with Max Allan Collins)
| The Killing Man | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| So Long, Chief | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Dangerous Cat | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| Me, Hood! | (1963) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Flier | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Return of the Hood | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Killer Mine | (1965) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Tough Guys | (1969) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Vintage Spillane | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tomorrow I Die | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Stand Up and Die! | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of's Mike Hammer Graphic Novels
(with Max Allan Collins)
| Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #1 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer #2 | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
| City Sleuths and Tough Guys | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Private Eyes | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Century of Great Suspense Stories | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Century of Noir | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Crimes by Moonlight | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Masters of Noir, Volume One | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Notes: As of The Goliath Bone, the Mike Hammer novels as well as the standalone novel The Consummata are co-authored (or ghostwritten) by Max Allan Collins. The Caleb York series was created by Spillane, but written by Max Allan Collins.
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