Hammett's first Continental Op story, "Arson Plus," is rural,
as is the comic western Op tale, "Corkscrew" and the story
"Two Sharp Knives" (which Hammett actually titled "To a Sharp
Knife," after the saying, "To a sharp knife comes a tough
steak").
He wrote the first scene of an uncompleted play called "The
Good Meal" set in a farmhouse. The uncompleted
autobiographical chunk of his last attempt at a novel,
"Tulip," is also rural. And so was about a quarter of his
novel
"The Dain Curse."
The novel "Velvet Vixen" by Australian author K.T. McCall is
mostly set in the middle of woods and farms in Canada.
And remember Joe Gores, whose latest novel starts in an
African game preserve, then bounces back and forth between
rural woods and Washington D.C. His novel "Wolf Time" is
mostly in the woods, and his Edgar-winning short story
"Goodbye, Pops" uses a rural setting for effective dramatic
effect.
Vince Emery
Vince Emery Productions Publisher:
- LOST STORIES by Dashiell Hammett
- DISCOVERING THE MALTESE FALCON AND
SAM SPADE edited by Richard Layman
- HAMMETT'S MORAL VISION
by George J. "Rhino" Thompson
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