Ckottos Nikolai (greenman@cyberport.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:07:18 -0700
I believe there are some stories that have not been reprinted
in many years; perhaps even within my own lifetime. As I
understand it, Ms. Hellman limited reprints of some of the
short stories. I have an old Dell mapback (1946), _Hammett
Homicides_ (no book collector I--it cost me a dollar in an
Albuquerque bookshop ten years ago). The Ellery Queen intro
states "The Op is usually described as fat, forty, and
nameless. Suppose we told you that all three adjectives are
incorrect. The Continental Op is not fat, is not forty, and
is not nameless! The truth will be divulged later--in the
fifth collection."
The fifth collection was, of course, the infamous _Dead
Yellow Women_. I don't own it, though I imagine one or two of
you reading this may possess a copy. I suspect the above
passage was more of a tease than anything else, and I'm not
sure I want to know the answers any more than I really want
to see exactly what Lovecraft's monsters looked like. But it
does lead me to suspect that there really are some more
stories out there. Hell, it was only ten years ago or so that
_Woman in the Dark_ was reprinted.
-Ckottos Nikolai
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