Spillane
noun
1.
Mickey (Frank Morrison) 1918–2006, U.S. detective novelist.
noun
1.
Mickey, original name Frank Morrison Spillane. 1918–2006, US detective-story writer, best known for his books featuring the detective Mike Hammer, for example I, the Jury (1947) and The Twisted Thing (1966)
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