e j m duggan (ejmd@cwcom.net)
Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:49:34 +0000
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, AnonymeInc@webtv.net
(Mark Sullivan) wrote:
> The PI guy wasn't Herron. It was some guy who said
he read Maltese
> Falcon in one sitting one night, then called the
Pinkerton Agency,
> because the book cover said Hammett had worked for
them, and asked
> if they hired inexperienced people or guys with
beards. They just
> happened to need a guy with a beard so they hired
him.
ROTFL :-0
That's David Fechheimer. He was on the 'hard boiled writers'
prog screened in the UK a few weeks ago---they spelled his
named wrong.
Josiah Thompson (himself an academic-turned-detective) tells
the story of Fechheimer's conversion in _Gumshoe_, his own
Maltese Falcon imbued memoir. Apparently when Fechheimer was
working on an MA dissertation on Am. lit. he spent a night
reading TMF, and he called the Pinkerton agency the following
morning who, as you say, needed a beard!
ED
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