In a message dated 2/27/03 1:56:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:28:33 -0500
From: Robison Michael R CNIN <
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil>
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Hardboiled Omnibus question
I have the following information on Shaw's Hardboiled
Omnibus.
Can anyone tell me which stories are excluded from the
paper-
back?
"The Hard-Boiled Omnibus" edited by Joseph T. Shaw,
Simon & Schuster, 1946.
(The 1st and greatest anthology. essential. Released as
a paperback years
many years later, missing some stories)
Shaw, Joseph T, Introduction
Des Ormeaux, J.J.(Forrest Rosaire) "The Devil Suit.",
July 1932
Shay, Reuben Jennings "Taking His Time.", January
1931
Hammett, Dashiell "Fly Paper.", August 1929
Decolta, Ramon(Raoul Whitfield) "Death in the Pasig.",
March 1930
Chandler, Raymond "The Man Who Liked Dogs.". March
1936
Davis, Norbert "Red Goose.", February 1934
Coxe, George Harmon "Murder Mixup.", May 1936
Cain, Paul (Peter Ruric) "Red 71.", December 1932
Whitfield, Raoul "Inside Job.", February 1932
Dent, Lester "Sail", October 1936
Booth, Charles G. "Sister Act.", February 1933
Walsh, Thomas "Best Man.", October 1934
Lybeck, Ed "Kick-Back.", January 1932
Torrey, Roger "Clean Sweep.", February 1934
Tinsley, Theodore "South Wind.", November 1932
"The Sleeping and the Dead", edited by August Derleth,
?. 1947
Wandrei, Howard "The Last Pin", February 1940"
Thank you, miker >>
Miker, you let the cursor go two lines too long when you cut
and pasted the contents of the Shaw anthology. The Derleth
reference is to a fantasy/horror anthology that he edited.
The Howard Wandrei story is in that anthology.
I have both editions and the missing stories are by Des
Ormeaux (Rosaire), Coxe and Booth. My experience is that the
hardback is not that uncommon and I've seen decent prices on
copies missing the dust jacket. Maybe I've just been
lucky.
You will notice there is no story by Erle Stanley Gardner. I
don't have his bio handy but my memory is that he was
irritated with Shaw who he felt was claiming too much credit
and would not give permission. Gardner pointed out that many
of the better known writers in Black Mask (Hammett was
another one besides Gardner himself) had stories in the
magazine prior to Shaw's editorship.
Chandler was angry at the story Shaw reprinted. It was one of
those that had been borrowed from for one of his novels, or
as he put it "cannibalized" and his agent had strict
instructions not to alloow any reprints of those. Chandler
(who claimed to have suggested the anthology idea to Shaw)
said he signed the permission form while he was busy and
distracted at Paramount. We know all this detail because when
Pocket Books came out with their reprint, Chandler received a
letter from E. Howard Hunt (then with the American Embassy in
Mexico City undercover for the CIA) who complained of
the
"self-plagiarism." He answered it in great detail ending with
the remark that Hunt was the only person to ever complain
other than Chandler himself.
Richard Moore
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