William Denton (buff@pobox.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:10:44 -0400 (EDT)
On 27 August 1999, ElectricSuit@aol.com
wrote:
: 2) I recently Red Harvest, somewhere in there, the
protagonist uses
: the words "burning Fatimas" to refer to smoking. Does
this refer to a
: specific brand of cigarette now defunct, or is it just
slang?
Yes. A quick search on "fatima cigarette" at a search engine
turned up this, in connection with an on-line auction:
http://www.budget.net/~bluglass/fatima.gif
: What in the wide, wide world of sports is the name of
the main
: character in Red Harvest and The Dain Curse?
How did Hammett refer to him?
Bill
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