I took a look at my copies of the Johnson, Nolan and Symons biographies. Interestingly enough, the Johnson doesn't reference Collinson in its index. Hmmmmmm? Nolan and Symons both mention that Hammett wrote these stories, but don't provide a list. Bummer. The 1974 book The Detective Short Story: a Bibliography and Index lists none. According to the Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies, the short story The Road Home (orig from Black Mask Dec,1922) is in the Ruhm collection The Hard-boiled Detective (Vintage, 1977). So that leads to the question--just how many short stories under Collinson did Hammett write. Maybe there is no collection because there aren't enough stories? Library of America recently did the Chandler pantheon by reprinting the pulp stories with the early novels in one volume, and the later novels in volume two. The editor told me that Hammett would be next, and maybe we can hope that all (and I do mean all) of the short stories would be included. Bruce Taylor, who runs the San Francisco Mystery Bookstore, tells a story about a Hammett short story that has never seen the light of day, buried by the estate with his papers in some library in Texas. - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca