Stacy Keach

This Applause edtiion allows the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Readers and students are faced with real theatrical choices in each speech as the editors point out the challenges and opportunities to the actor and director at each juncture. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare,...

A successful stock broker on Wall Street is murdered in cold blood, and Andy the janitor is the first one to find his body. But when the simple man gets blood on his hands and accidentally incriminates himself, he turns to Mike Hammer to help him clear his good name. Hammer sees that Andy is innocent, but his attempt to find the real culprit is nearly foiled by a series of traps and pitfalls that evade the private eye's keen intuitions and continue...

After being released from his time in prison, Mike Hammer's old friend Herman Simpson joins him for dinner. The discussion turns techie when Simpson brings up the computer revolution that is underway. However, a bank robbery involving this same technology-- and a suspiciously similar criminal --takes place the same evening. Simpson becomes the prime suspect, and Hammer is his only hope at staying free.

Mike Hammer is hired to investigate a toxic chemical dump in the Hudson River by Patrick Dean, the man accused of the crime. Hammer is no fan of tabloids, but his sleuthing uncovers new headlines of his own. While looking to clear his name, the journalist who broke the story and incriminated Patrick is found dead. Now, Hammer starts to suspect that his client might not be as clean as he claimed to be.

After a prostitute is murdered, Father Dressler is worried about the women who work nights in his neighborhood. The holy man asks Mike Hammer, a former parishioner, for help protecting the local ladies of the night but the rules of the confessional forbid him from giving Hammer too many details. When Dressler ends up dead, Mike Hammer is on the case, and he takes a position that is not so forgiving.

Mike Hammer is a big fan and old friend of Buzz MacClaine, a popular mystery writer, and the author asks the private eye to help edit his latest work. When Buzz meets his own violent end, Mike Hammer takes on the case to find the killer. But in this case, life seems to imitate art. Hammer and his team realize that his manuscript is filled with clues to an actual crime, and they must decode the mystery novel in order to find Buzz's killer.

Deputy Mayor Barry Lawrence is not exactly friendly with Mike Hammer. But when his campaign to become District Attorney is tainted by allegations of murder, Hammer looks to solve the case and dig up dirt.

Radio host Dr. Silvia runs an on-air love and relationship advice show for women. When Mike Hammer's girlfriend takes Dr. Silvia's advice to dump him, he makes an unscheduled guest appearance in her studio in order to give her a piece of his mind. With his new reputation as a macho bully, Mike Hammer becomes the prime suspect after she is suddenly murdered. Now, he and his team must prove his innocence by finding the real killer.