Spillane's books are good fun, and Spillane had good fun playing the real-life character of Mickey Spillane.

I thought of Spillane's writing just recently, when the newspaper printed this excerpt from this year's winner of the Bulmer-Lytton literary parody prize:

"Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean."