In a message dated 11/19/2003 10:50:10 AM Eastern Standard
Time,
vince@emery.com writes:
> I can say the book will include 21 stories, all of
which
> have never appeared in a book or have been out of
print for decades, and
> that they span Hammett's writing career from the
first short story he ever
> wrote (which was not the first story he had
published) to
> his last.
Must have been quite an undertaking. I attended the
presentation by Hammett's daughter and granddaughter at B'con
in DC two years ago, and recall hearing there that the
copyrights for Hammett's work were all bound up by some
multinational congomerate. I'd be interested in hearing how
you managed to shake them loose, since we have been
interested at Back Alley Books in releasing a set of Back
Alley Classics from the twenties, thirties, and forties. So
far, we've had to focus on works in the public domain, which
limits us largely to anything pubbed before 1923.
Looking forward to this anthology! R
Richard Helms WET DEBT (0-8710159-3-7) the fourth book in the
Pat Gallegher Mystery Series from Back Alley Books!
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