Post #243675 by cheeky half on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 3:25 PM

Mickey Spillane

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.....Spillane had critics among fellow writers. Rival detective novelist Raymond Chandler described his work as "nothing but a mixture of violence and outright pornography".
But Spillane was immune to such criticism. "Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar," he once pronounced.