e j m duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:59:58 +0000
On 25 Jun 99,, james.doherty@gsa.gov
wrote:
> Either "Arson Plus" or "Slippery Fingers" is
published in Nolan's *The
> Black Mask Boys*, I believe.
'Bodies Piled Up' [aka 'House Dick'] is the Hammett story in
Nolan's
_BMB_; it also appears (as 'House Dick') in the DH
Omnibus.
> One or the other also appears in the Bill
Pronzini-edited
> *Arbor House Treasury of Detective & Mystery
Stories
> from the Great Pulps* (Arbor, 1983).
I'm not surprised---there're so many of these fat volumes
now
(Greenberg; Pronzini; Jakubowski) it's difficult to keep
track. (Some times a rarity gets re-issued, but usually it's
something which is available in another colelction.) Maybe
someone on the list has a copy
[I bet it'll be Mario] and can tell us which Hammett story is
in it.
> Your list leaves out "Who Killed Bob Teal?" which,
in addition to
> being one of the first times, probably *the* first
time, an entry
> in an ongoing mystery series featured the death of
a
> regular supporting character in the series, in
addition to being the only
> Op story that was published as, ostensibly, a true
crime article rather
> than a mystery short story, also was the Hammett's
first use of the
> "avenging the murdered partner" theme, essentially
using a puzzle
> situation, and a clue which would be replicated
years later in *The
> Maltese Falcon*.
Yes---although Spade doesn't have the mud on O'Shaugnessy's
shoes as the clincher, in the way the Op does in the Teal
case.
> I believe "Who Killed Bob Teal?" was included in
an
> obscure anthology of fact crime articles by
well-known mystery fiction
> writers, but the title escapes me.
It's included in _Murder Plus_ edited by Marc Gerald. I left
this story off the list because it's been re-published in two
collections, _Murder Plus_ and the DH Omnibus. I suppose the
DH Omnibus is out of print and 'doesn't count', but then
again I think the Marcus collection is o.o.p. too. The Gerald
volume should be locatable though
(worth getting it you come across it---in addition to
Hammett, there's a Jim Thomson story, a Robert Bloch (yup: Ed
Gein again) and---egg suit on---SS van Dine *and* Erle
Stanley G.
ED
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