<<Okay, I just got up and still not really awake, but
what's Hammett's
sixth? Woman in the Dark? Or Big Knockover? These probably
qualify (I
forget the official word-count for a novel from college
English), but I
always thought of Hammett as having written 5 novels, plus a
few
novellas, or "short novels" as they are called in the
subtitle to Big
Knockover.>>
_Blood Money_ was published as a novel. The University of
Minnesota
library had an ancient copy of this, the only one I've seen.
I don't
know if it was Hammett's idea to put together the Paddy the
Mex stories
"The Big Knockover" and "$106,000 Blood Money". In the
reissue of _The
Big Knockover_, Lillian Hellman put those two stories at the
end of the
book.
Regards,
Mario Taboada
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