Max Allan Collins concludes the violent career of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer in BABY, IT'S MURDER

Max Allan Collins returns to Forbidden Planet TV to talk with fellow Mickey Spillane aficionado Andrew Sumner about concluding the guns-blazing adventures of Spillane's wild private eye Mike Hammer - in Titan Books' all-new final Hammer novel, BABY, IT'S MURDER! Max also has plenty to say about Volume 6 of Titan Comics' MS.TREE archive editions (FALLEN TREE); his latest podcast project - an all-star audio dramatization of his first Nathan Heller novel - starring Michael Rosenbaum as Heller (TRUE NOIR); Hard Case Crime's upcoming paperback edition of THE LAST QUARRY and his January 2026-publishing Hard Case Crime sequel to Dashiell Hammett's PI classic: THE RETURN OF THE MALTESE FALCON!

MIKE HAMMER: BABY, IT'S MURDER

Mike Hammer’s deadly final adventure challenges everything we knew about the enduring noir detective in this gripping finale with a shocking twist.

The concluding Hammer novel begins with a 21st century funeral before flashing back to summer, 1973.

Nine years after the events of Mike Hammer: Dig Two Graves, Hammer takes another unlikely vacation - this time on Long Island to help look after his partner Velda Sterling’s seventeen-year-old sibling, Mikki.

Mikki must deal with the attention of two boys vying for her affection - Hammer preferring the good kid from a wealthy family over the long-haired doper with an Easy Rider vibe. When Mikki gets hooked on heroin, Hammer – filled with contempt for dope dealers – goes on a rampage. He will find those behind the drug racket and teach them what shooting up is all about.

But a final resolution awaits him in the future at that funeral…

MS TREE VOLUME 6: FALLEN TREE

The sixth sensational instalment in the Hard Case Crime books of Ms Tree, private detective, from famed Hard Case Crime author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition)! Fans of pulp noir and hard-boiled detective crime fiction will love this seminal collection of classic comics.

From the minds of award-winning author Max Allan Collins and artist Terry Beatty, comes the sixth collection of classic Ms Tree stories, collected together for the first time!

Join Michael Tree, the 6ft, 9mm carrying private detective on her thrilling adventures. No case is too small, no violence too extreme, just as long as it gets the job done.

Fans of hard-boiled detective and crime fiction will get a thrill from these tales!

You can order BABY, IT'S MURDER & MS TREE VOLUME SIX: FALLEN TREE below.