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The Body Lovers (1967) is Mickey Spillane's tenth book featuring private investigator Mike Hammer.

Plot summary

This story opens with Mike Hammer moving through the dark streets of the city when he hears a child emit a terrible scream of fear. When he finds the child he also discovers the nude body of a murdered beautiful woman who had been beaten to death with a whip. This begins a complicated and baffling case involving the deaths of a few more women, a murdered newspaper reporter who was tracking some aspects of the case and the sordid life of the prostitutes in the city. The newspaper reporter community and the police department ally themselves with Hammer, but despite all the effort, there are few clues, so in typical Hammer style, Mike creates them. He plays the white knight to some women who have reached the depths, pounding a pimp who regularly beat his women into a bloody pulp in order to make the point. Mike uncovers a sadistic ring made up of international figures where women at a low point risk their lives for a fortune in a desperate attempt to pull themselves up. In the end, Velda comes through for Mike and he defeats the ring by literally blowing it away.

References

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Novels	I, the Jury (1947) My Gun Is Quick (1950) Vengeance Is Mine (1950) One Lonely Night (1951) The Big Kill (1951) Kiss Me, Deadly (1952) The Girl Hunters (1962) The Snake (1964) The Twisted Thing (1966) The Body Lovers (1967) Survival... Zero! (1970) The Killing Man (1989) Black Alley (1996) The Goliath Bone (2008) The Big Bang (2010) Kiss Her Goodbye (2011) Lady, Go Die! (2012) Complex 90 (2013) King of the Weeds (2014) Kill Me, Darling (2015) Murder Never Knocks (2016) The Will To Kill (2017) Killing Town (2018) Murder, My Love (2019) Masquerade for Murder (2020) Kill Me If You Can (2022) Dig Two Graves (2023) Baby, It's Murder (2024)
Films	I, the Jury (1953) Kiss Me Deadly (1955) My Gun Is Quick (1957) The Girl Hunters (1963) Margin for Murder (TV, 1981) I, the Jury (1982) Murder Me, Murder You (TV, 1983) More Than Murder (TV, 1984) The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (TV, 1986) Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV, 1989) Come Die with Me (TV, 1994) Mike Hammer: Song Bird (V, 2003)
Television	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1958–1960) Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984–1985) episodes The New Mike Hammer (1986–1987) Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998)

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