The creature is a book by the well-known American writer Mickey Spillane, working in the detective genre. The hero of the novel, private detective Mike Hammer, is harsh; his pistol is quick, and Hammer uses it without hesitation. A whole series of detective stories has been created about the detective’s cases, with total print runs exceeding 100 million copies; numerous films have been made, and reading clubs have been formed around the world.
In the novel The Creature, experienced private detective Mike Hammer gets lost in guesses, trying to find the criminal. And that’s not surprising, because no one ever thought that unbelievably complex murders could have been devised by the one who was called “the creature.” One of Hammer’s longtime clients calls him and asks to remove from him the accusations of a crime that seems simple only at first glance…