I the jury by mickey spillane biography

novel by Mickey Spillane

This article is about the Mickey Spillane novel. For the film adaptations, see I, the Jury ( film) and I, the Jury ( film).

I, the Jury is the debut novel of American crime fiction writer Mickey Spillane, the first work to feature private investigatorMike Hammer.

Plot summary

Private detective Mike Hammer is called to the apartment of insurance investigator Jack Williams, a close friend who was crippled saving Hammer's life during shared World War II military service in the Pacific.

Losing his arm rendered Jack unfit for police work, so he put his experience to use by investigating insurance fraud.

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Williams has been murdered in a particularly cruel way, deliberately shot in the stomach to make the death slow and painful. Mike vows vengeance, declaring that Jack's murderer will die the same way Jack did.

Prior to his death, Jack had fallen in love with Myrna Devlin when he stopped her from committing suicide by jumping from a brid