Hello Everyone,
The only one of these books I'm familiar with is the Dennis
Dooley volume, which I read a while back. It provided some
interesting insights into Hammett's work. It essentially
points out the same aspects of his writing as many other
critical works but, I found, in a more consise manner.
Overall, I found it a worthwhile read, at least as an
introduction to Hammett if nothing else.
All the best. Harry Lerner
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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net:
> Yesterday, I ran across a few books that I thought
about buying. I was
> wondering if anyone has read any of them and can
help me decide whether
> or not I should go back and get them:
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> Raymond Chandler on Screen: His Novels into Film, by
Stephen Prado,
> Scarecrow Press, 1976.
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> Dashiell Hammett by Dennis Dooley, Frederick Ungar,
1985 -- it looks
> like this is in the same series as Sons of Sam Spade
and a book I have
> on Ross Macdonald.
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> How to Enjoy Mysteries (or a Mystery, forget which)
-- this appeared to
> be one of a series of "How to Enjoy . . ." books, It
was published in
> 1945, which leads me to be it mostly focuses on
traditional mysteries,
> but Hammett was in the index.
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Harry Lerner PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology McGill
University Montreal, Quebec Canada
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