Some people will do anything for money - even kill. For crime that pays, these seventeen original stories - as hard-edged as the butt of a .38 and selected for this volume by tough guy Mickey Spillane himself - focus on the blood-chilling business of murder for hire. This is detective fiction descended from the school of hard knocks and steel fists perfected by Mike Hammer - although today the sexy dame with big blue eyes may be sizing up her target, not batting her eyelashes.

Contents:

• Murder Was His Business by Max Allan Collins · in *
• The Bishop and the Hit Man [Blackie Ryan] by Andrew Greeley · ss *
• The Man Who Shot Trinity Valance by Paul Bishop · ss *
• With Anchovies by John Lutz · ss *
• Guest Services [Quarry] by Max Allan Collins · ss *
• The Matchstick and the Rubber Band by Lynn F. Myers, Jr. · ss *
• Hitback by Wayne D. Dundee · ss *
• Undercover by Carolyn Wheat · ss *
• Angel Face by Daniel Helpingstine · ss *
• Improvident Excess by Barry N. Malzberg · ss *
• The King of Horror by Stephen Mertz · ss *
• A Nice Save by Edward Wellen · vi *
• Without a Trace by Warren Murphy · nv *
• Runner and the Deathbringer by Teri White · ss *
• The Operation by Henry Slesar · ss *
• Surrogate by Ed Gorman · ss *
• Keller on Horseback [John Keller] by Lawrence Block · nv *
• Everybody’s Watching Me by Mickey Spillane · na Manhunt Jan ’53 (+2)

Edited by: Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins.