Title: My gun is quick
Description: Mike Hammer PI Mike Hammer runs into a red-headed prostitute in a bar. He's not interested in her professional services, so he buys her a coffee and chats to her for a while. The next day the streetwalker turns up dead. It's none of Hammer's business, but all the injustice of the world is suddenly crystallised in this one senseless death. And then Hammer begins to realise that the death, supposedly a hit-and-run accident, doesn't add up. It's starting to look like murder. But it doesn't stop there. The trail leads Hammer into a world of vice, corruption and violence ...
Subjects: Fiction, Private investigators, American literature
Places: New York (State), New York
People: Mike Hammer (Fictitious character)