Blog Posts - Dashiell Hammett

I've seen both film versions and a rare live TV production, but didn't know about this.

This column appeared in the May 24, 1930 issue of the New York Evening Post.THE SCARAB MURDER CASE By S. S. Van Dine. Scribners. $2. MANHATTAN NIGHT. By William Almon Wolff. Minton, Balch. $2. THE MAN WHO WAS THERE. By N. A. Temple-Ellis. Dutton. $2.

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(This column appeared in the April 26, 1930 edition of the New York Evening Post.)THE WYCHFORD POISONING CASE. By Anthony Berkeley. Crime Club. $2.DEATH TRAPS. By Kay Cleaver Strahan. Crime Club. $2. THROUGH THE EYES OF THE JUDGE. By Bruce Graeme. Li...

A Multi-Media presentation from March, 2014. Was Don Herron in the audience?

This column appeared in the April 12, 1930 issue of the New York Evening Post.THE CRIME WAVEBy Dashiell HammettTHE NOOSE. By Philip MacDonald. Dial. $2. BLUE RUM, By Ernest Souza. Cape & Smith. $2.50. THE BLACK DOOR. By Virgil Markham. Knopf. $2.

This article is from the April 16, 1927 issue of The Saturday Review of LiteratureGuessers and Deducers THE AFFAIR IN DUPLEX 9B. By WILLIAM JOHNSON. New York: George H. Doran. 1927. $2. THE KINK. By LYNN BROCK. New York: Harper & Bros. 1927. $2.

This piece is from The Saturday Review of Literature for May 21, 1927, and can be seen in its original habitat on UNZ.org, HERE.CURRENT MURDERSReviewed by DASHIELL HAMMETT THE HOUSE OF SIN. By ALLEN UPWARD. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 192...

Thanks to Don Herron and his pal Terry Zobeck (HERE) I was able to locate scans of The New York Evening Post, which featured many book reviews by Mr. Hammett. This one is from the issue dated Apr 5, 1930.'The Door' Won't Shut Till EndedTHE DOOR. By M...

The YouTube description say this "client" is the original robot from Forbidden Planet. True? I don't know. I'll defer to Cap'n Bob, who has recently acquired knowledge of such matters. What say you, Cap'n?

This piece appeared in the July 15, 1927 issue of The Saturday Review of Literature.Poor Scotland Yard! FALSE FACE By SYDNEY HORLER. New York: George H. Doran Company. 1926. $2.THE BENSON MURDER CASE. By S. S. VAN DINE. New York: Charles Scribner's S...

Yeah, I still have Hammett on the brain, so here's a post I ran a few years ago about the second film version of The Maltese Falcon (the Bogie classic was the third) - and this time I have the movie to go with it, The bad news is, this is a real...

Back on March 20 (HERE), while discussing the 1974 collection The Continental Op, and while in the throes of Op-mania, I said that I believed two stories in that book "The Main Death" (1927) and "The Farewell Murder" (1930) had been written far earli...

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Here's the difference between Red Harvest and The Dain Curse: Yesterday I was bragging about my first edition of Red Harvest, which has been the cornerstone of my hardboiled collection for nigh upon thirty years. Also yesterday, while poking around m...

Before I first read Red Harvest (sometime in the early '80s, I believe) my favorite book was Breakfast of Champions. I used to think everyone on the planet should read that book and get off on it as much as I did. I carried a spare copy in my trunk a...

Last week (beginning HERE) I posted covers from 27 of the 28 magazines where Continental Op stories first appeared. The only one missing was the March 1925 issue of Black Mask, featuring "The Whosis Kid." Well, I am mighty dang pleased to report...

I remember being pretty psyched when this came to TV back in 1978. I was deep in the throes of hardboiledmania, and though I didn't care much for the novel, a TV portrayal of the Continental Op seemed like a very big deal. And I was a big fan of Jame...

Back in the Olden Days (in this case prior to 1979) our best resource for following the footsteps of the Continental Op was this series of maps on the backs of Dell paperbacks. These days, of course, we have Don Herron's far more informative Dashiell...

Here are a mess of different editions of what seems to be everyone's least favorite Hammett novel. It certainly is mine. Why? I'll be yapping about that later this week, and displaying a few of the older covers.

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