With apologies for the delay, here's the list of the contents
of the digest sized-paperbacks published by Spivak:
The Adventures of Sam Spade and other stories(Bestseller,
1944) reprinted as: They Can Only Hang You Once. Mercury,
1949. Partially reprinted as: A Man Called Spade, Dell,
1945.
? The Assistant Murderer
? His Brother's Keeper
? The Judge Laughed Last ["The
New Racket"]
? A Man Called Spade
? Nightshade
? They Can Only Hang You
Once
? Too Many Have Lived
The Continental Op (Bestseller, 1945)
? Death on Pine Street ["Women,
Politics and Murder"]
? The Farewell Murder
? Fly Paper
? Zigzags of Treachery
The Return of the Continental Op (Jonathan, 1945)
? Death and Company
? The Gutting of
Couffignal
? One Hour
? The Tenth Clue
? The Whosis Kid
Hammett Homicides (Bestseller, 1946)
? The Girl with the Silver
Eyes
? The House in Turk
Street
? The Main Death
? Night Shots
? Ruffian's Wife
? Two Sharp Knives
Dead Yellow Women (Jonathan, 1947)
? Dead Yellow Women
? The Golden Horseshoe
? The Green Elephant
? The Hairy One
["Ber-Bulu"]
? House Dick ["Bodies Piled
Up"]
? Who Killed Bob Teal?
Nightmare Town (Mercury, 1948)
? Albert Pastor at Home
? Corkscrew
? Nightmare Town
? The Scorched Face
The Creeping Siamese (Jonathan, 1950)
? The Creeping Siamese
? The Joke on Eloise
Morey
? The Man Who Killed Dan
Odams
? The Nails in Mr.
Cayterer
? This King Business
? Tom, Dick or Harry ["Mike,
Alec or Rufus"]
Woman in the Dark (Jonathan, 1951) The title novelette was
separately published by Knopf, 1988
? Afraid of a Gun
? Arson Plus [as by Peter
Collinson]
? The Black Hat That Wasn't
There ["It"]
? Holiday
? The Man Who Stood in the Way
["The Vicious Circle", as by Peter Collinson]
? Slippery Fingers
? Woman in the Dark
A Man Named Thin and other stories (Mercury, 1962)
? The Barber and His Wife [as
by Peter Collinson] ? ss Brief Stories Dec '22
? The Gatewood Caper ["Crooked
Souls"]
? In the Morgue ["The
Dimple"]
? Itchy the Debonair
["Itchy"]
? A Man Named Thin
? The Second-Story Angel
? Wages of Crime ["The Sardonic
Star of Tom Doody", as by Peter Collinson]
? When Luck's Running Good
["Laughing Masks"]
Uncollected:
The Road Home, Black Mask, December 1922 by Peter
Collinson
Two stories have been issued only in unauthorized editions
and probably count as uncollected: The Diamond Wager,
privately printed, 1977 The Crusader, privately printed,
1980.
Doug
Douglas G. Greene Professor of History Old Dominion
University Norfolk, VA 23529-0091 Phone 757 683-3949
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