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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9893450" data-attributes="member: 86653">I'm on a bit of a hardboiled & noir kick. I finished the first Mike Hammer book yesterday. I The Jury by Mickey Spillane. The book was fast-paced if a bit scattered, lots of apparent side quests that eventually mattered to the main plot. It was a lot less racist and sexist than I assumed. Still quite racist and sexist, but nothing compared to say an H. P. Lovecraft or Robert E. Howard book. The worst of it was the attempt at phonetic spelling for the two African-American characters who appear in the book. So painful to read. Mike is investigating the death of a close friend and war buddy. The dead guy saved Mike's life in WW2 and lost an arm for his troubles. There are three main female characters in the book, two femme fatales and Mike's secretary. Mike proposes marriage to two of them and sleeps with the third twice, including once after being engaged to one of the other two. Of course the main plot and string of murders were the fault of one of the femme fatales. I figured the whodunnit part by the halfway point of the book, though I was wrong about the how and why. In all a fun, fast-paced book despite the racism and sexism.</blockquote>