Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Killing Man | 1989 | Mickey Spillane | N/A |
| 2 | So Long, Chief | 2013 | Mickey Spillane | N/A |
| 3 | A Dangerous Cat | 2017 | Mickey Spillane | N/A |
Mickey Spillane’s shorter fiction includes The Killing Man (1989) and posthumous publications like So Long, Chief (2013) and A Dangerous Cat (2017), completed by Max Allan Collins.
Spillane died in 2006 and left behind unfinished manuscripts. Collins, his literary executor, completed several of them for publication. So Long, Chief appeared seven years after Spillane’s death, and A Dangerous Cat followed in 2017. The Killing Man (1989) is the only piece from this group that Spillane published during his lifetime. These shorter works offer a compact alternative to his full-length novels for readers who want to sample his hardboiled style.