Miker,
Re your comment below:
> Hammett himself left the magazine a couple
times,
> didn't he? . . . [He] came back when Shaw
> became editor and asked Hammett to do a
serial
> which, I'm guessing,
> became RED HARVEST.
Following Shaw's invitation to do a novel, and prior to "The
Cleansing of Poisonville," the serial published in book form
as RED HARVEST, Hammett did a two-part serial for BLACK MASK,
about a major bank robbery and the hunt for the guy who
masterminded it.
The two installments were called "The Big Knockover" and
"$106,000 Blood Money." Oddly, given that this was his first
book-length work (though at 40,000 words, just barely), it
wasn't published in book form until the early '40s. The
hard-back edition was called BLOOD MONEY. Paperback editions
have been published as THE BIG KNOCKOVER, $106,000 BLOOD
MONEY, and simply BLOOD MONEY. The two installments can also
be found in the Lilian Hellman-edited Hammett collection THE
BIG KNOCKOVER.
There's a pretty funny spoof of this story by Jon L. Breen
called "$106,000 Mud Bunny" in which a character known only
as "The Transcendental Cop" searches for the expensive clay
statue of a rabbit.
JIM DOHERTY
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