I haven't seen this mentioned here before, so...
I just received a new flyer from Library of America ( http://www.loa.org/ ) today.
The first page inside the cover is a full page devoted to:
"Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories and Other Writings" - Edited
by Steven Marcus. The book is scheduled for September 2001,
according to the LoA website.
What will make this book essential for most of us is best
described with the following quote from the flyer:
"The texts, reprinted here for the first time, are those that
appeared originally in the pulps, without the cuts and
revisions introduced by later editors."
There is a press release about this at: http://www.loa.org/article.jsp?art=144
which includes the following link: http://www.loa.org/images/pdf/Hammettsample.pdf
which takes you to a PDF file of ten pages from "The Golden
Horseshoe" with the restored portions highlighted.
I can't find a contents listing anywhere online, so I'll
provide here what the flyer lists. I think of few of these
are not readily available otherwise.
Crime Stories: Arson Plus Slippery Fingers Crooked Souls The
Tenth Clew Zigzags of Treachery The House in Turk Street The
Girl with the Silver Eyes Women, Politics and Murder The
Golden Horseshoe Nightmare Town The Whosis Kid The Scorched
Face Dead Yellow Women The Gutting of Couffignal The
Assistant Murderer Creeping Siamese The Big Knock-Over
$106,000 Blood Money The Main Death This King Business Fly
Paper The Farewell Murder Woman in the Dark Two Sharp
Knives
Other Writings: The Thin Man (An Early Typescript) From the
Memoirs of a Private Detective
"Suggestions to Detective Story Writers"
Well, that's most of what I know. I'm looking forward to the
book!
-karl.
karl@rockin-r.net
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