Hammer's Bounty

Hammer’s Bounty (Hardboiled P.I.)

By R Archer

Hard Boiled Books

Price $1.49 (kindle)

11 Pages

Rating 5-Stars

“Mike Hammer Is Back!”

Mike Hammer is short of cash, and desperate for money. With no case pending, the private detective decides to take on a bounty job, looking for a murderer who has skipped justice. The bounty he chooses is Dale Johnson, a homicidal maniac who kills women for their toes. Finding a clue, he follows it to his target.

Typical of the hardboiled genre, Mike Hammer is a no-nonsense private eye who lets his gun to his talking. Although at only eleven pages, there isn’t much time to build suspense, and Hammer finds his man pretty quick. But it was a fun read, and short stories need a wider market today, like they had in the days of MANHUNT and MIKE SHANE mystery magazines. Highly recommended.

Tom Johnson

Detective Mystery Stories