"M Blumenthal"
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net writ:
> I came across Dennis Dooley's Dashiel
Hammett.
> I had forgotten I had this and know I
haven't
> read it. Should I?
Yes.
There are dozens of *articles*, but there aren't that many
full-length studies of Hammett (though there are several more
if the biographies are included). I can't think of a bad one
among 'em (although Diane Johnson's Hellman-approved
biography came in for considerable stick from Bill Nolan for
various factual inaccuracies, which he set out and corrected
in a critical article (possibly in Armchair
Detective)).
Apart from the Dooley book, there is Sinda Gregory's Private
Investigations, which is a study of the novels (a revised
version of Gregory's PhD, which received what can best be
described as a 'lukewarm' review from Richard Layman); and
there is Peter Wolfe's Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell
Hammett; and there's Nolan's Casebook.
HTH ;-)
ED
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