Ckottos Nikolai (greenman@cyberport.com)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:43:40 -0700
Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
> The Mercury Mystery edition of A Man Named Thin
lists a bibliography of
> the short story collections up to that
point:
>
> The Adventures of Sam Spade, 1944 (later partially
reprinted as A Man
> Called Spade and Other Stories and fully reprinted
as They Can Only Hang
> You Once and Other Stories):
(snipped)
Mark,
You raise a good point, which I should have included: there
are actually other Sam Spade stories beyond _The Maltese
Falcon_. I don't think they have been reprinted in recent
memory; if they have, I've missed them. I can't remember
where I had heard that it was Hellman who nixed the
republication of some early stories, put the existence of the
Sam Spade stories would seem to confirm it.
BTW, the last two stories in _Hammet Homicides_ (Two Sharp
Knives and Ruffian's Wife) feature protagonists other than
the Op: Chief of Police Anderson and Guy Tharp. I don't know
if they appear elsewhere. Anyway, it's obvious that there are
a number of stories in those old Dell editions that are fifty
years or more out of print, and I can't imagine that they
collected all his short fiction even then. What we need is a
Library of America edition of Hammett's works (IMHO, he
should have come before Chandler, though I guess I should be
happy they're publishing hard-boiled/noir writers at all.),
but that's another matter.
-Ckottos Nikolai
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