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I wasn’t hooked by this book from cover-to-cover. It was great to read this master of the hard-boiled genre, though. There were lots of good parts throughout (I especially liked when Hammer first found Lily Carver … telling her to put the gun down or he would punch her out).
Also the terminology used in the genre was fun: Rod=gun, heap=car, etc. He used “dames” a lot and Hammer smoked a butt load of Luckys. I’d like to re-read this just to count the number of cigarettes the character smoked. But, overall, I had trouble with many of Spillane’s transitions between scenes. Often, they began with, “I left the room,” with the next sentence having Hammer at the next scene.
Unlike today’s books that use white space to indicate such travel, this book didn’t and I found myself often going back and re-reading for the transition so I could figure out how Hammer got to his current place. I suppose I just wasn’t accustomed to the style. Perhaps it’s an indicator of the era.
Not my favorite. But it didn’t totally suck, either.
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