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Spillane   /spˈɪlən/   Listen
Spillane

noun
1.
United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918).  Synonyms: Frank Morrison Spillane, Mickey Spillane.






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"Spillane" Quotes from Famous Books



... shot in the main street of Castleisland; when Patrick Taugney was murdered in the presence of his wife and daughters; when Edmund Allen was shot dead because of a right-of-way dispute—he was a Protestant; when young Cashman, aged twenty, was beaten to death for speaking to a policeman; when poor Spillane was murdered for acting as a caretaker; when Patrick Curtin, John Rahen, and a farmer named Tonery were murdered; when James Spence, aged sixty-five, was beaten to death; when Blake, Ruane, Linton, Burke, Wallace, Dempsey, Timothy Sullivan, John Moylan, James Sheridan, and Constable ...
— Ireland as It Is - And as It Would be Under Home Rule • Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)



Words linked to "Spillane" :   Frank Morrison Spillane, writer, Mickey Spillane, author



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