Dennis Lynds wrote:
> What I strongly suspect Hammett was doing in it was
trying to make a buck
> by
> giving his perceived audience what they wanted, and
at the same time
> metaphorically savage his hated Boise.
You're close, Dennis, but I think you're still one state off.
Poisonville isn't a literary avatar for Boise. If memory
serves correctly, it's an avatar for Butte, Montana. Hammett
went there as a Pinkerton strike-breaker during the troubles
with the Wobblies after the I.W.W. tried to unionize the poor
Irish immigrants working that mammoth copper mine
there.
All the Best-
Brian Thornton
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