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| | Mike Hammer |
 | | Not for Hammer the chivalric romance of Philip Marlowe, or the cold, amoral, passionless vengeance of Sam Spade. |
 | | The Hammer books are not only extreme in their subject matter, but they also have a tendency to provoke an extreme reaction. |
 | | If, as has often been repeated, Nero Wolfe is the son of Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler, then Hammer is the bastard son of Race and his nemisis, The Flame, the Girl With The Criminal Mind, as suggested by Tony Sparafucile in the 1978 preface to a Race Williams reprint. |
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