A bit more information on the unproduced and unpublished
Jonathan Latimer screenplay adaptation of Hammett's RED
HARVEST. The dealer was Kevin Johnson of Royal Books in
Baltimore and the listing (and pic) can be found at
www.royalbooksonline.com or linking via abebooks.com. It says
the manuscript dates from 1941 and has many penciled
notations, presumably by Latimer. This is one year before his
adaptation of THE GLASS KEY hit the theaters. The listed
price is
$6,500, which to me seems like a bargain. Of course, that's
easy for me to say since I am not about to buy it.
Once my shipment arrives I will report on more of my finds
there. I shipped all the pulps and hardbacks because I had to
swing through Chicago on business before getting home. I am
really spending too much money on these things. I came home
to find a stack of packages from eBay wins, which got me some
kidding from the family. Good thing they didn't open them and
find the copies of Rogue Magazine, the Playboy imitator, or I
would have been kidded. At Bouchercon I ran into William
Nolan who was a regular contributor to Rogue. He said all the
unsigned Rogue profiles in the early years when pulpish paper
was used were either by him or Charles Beaumont. The mag
switched to all slick pages around 1959 or 1960.
Nolan has completed his third book on Hammett and says it is
more than 900 pages. He told me he had submitted it to Knopf
but they wanted changes he could not agree to and asked his
agent to withdraw the book. He's confident it will find
another publisher and given his track record I am certain it
will. I liked his first two books on Hammett. My favorite
recent book on Hammett was the one a couple of years ago by
his daughter. She was at a convention I attended (Washington
Bouchercon?) and I regret not going to her session as she has
a very different perspective and articulates it very
well.
Richard Moore
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