On 26 October 2004, Michael Robison wrote:
: From what I hear, Whitfield and Hammett were drinking
buddies, whiling
: away the hours debating the way a hardboiled story should
be told. I
: see a lot of similarity in their writing styles.
Hammett later started having it off with Mrs. Whitfield. Joan
Mellen's HELLMAN AND HAMMETT says:
"It was at this time [January 1936] that, weakened as he was
by lung disease, venereal disease, and alcoholism, Dash began
a relationship with Pru Whitfield, the wife of BLACK MASK
writer Raoul Whitfield, who had himself fallen ill with
tuberculosis."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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