“Mood-and-Sex Author Mickey Spillane Sweeps U. S.” , from the Sydney Herald, 1952

The following is an edited AI reading of a review of hard boiled crime writer Mickey Spillane from 1952. At the time Spillane had published 6 best-selling novels about his hard-boiled detective, Mike Hammer. There are some contradictions within Spillane's own character, which come out very nicely in this text from the Trove newspaper archive in Australia. The short sound bytes you hear at the start and at the end of the show are taken from the first episode of the Mike Hammer old time radio series broadcast the following year, in 1953.