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Mickey Spillane and his second wife, Sherri Malinou, |
Obituary
Mickey Spillane
Bestselling writer of shoot-em-up crime novels
John Sutherland
Tue 18 Jul 2006
"Women," he claimed in later life, 'liked the name Mickey". Other accounts suggest that "Michael" was the middle name his Catholic father had him baptised under; "Morrison" was the name his Protestant mother put on the birth certificate. Few at his fraught christening would have foreseen the arrival of the 20th century's bestselling novelist, Mickey Spillane who has died aged 88 of cancer.
