Blog Posts - Dashiell Hammett

One of the pleasant asides to writing, reading other blogs, Twittering, Facebook and all the other social media is discovering new writers. I mean new writers in your genre, and new old writers in your genre. But apart from the pursuit being pleasura...

Yep, I'm still on a Hammett binge, and still have several more books to yap about.This one appeared in both digest and paperback in 1950.The title story, which appeared in the March 1926 Black Mask without the "The" in front of it, is one of three ta...

The four-story collection Nightmare Town first appeared in digest in 1948, with stories edited by Frederic Dannay, and was repackaged in this nice Dell Mapback in 1950. As a bonus, the Mapback included seven original illustrations, shown below. Bill...

The four-story collection Nightmare Town first appeared in digest in 1948, with stories edited by Frederic Dannay, and was repackaged in this nice Dell Mapback in 1950. As a bonus, the Mapback included seven original illustrations, shown below. Bill...

When I reviewed The Return of the Continental Op a couple of weeks ago (that's HERE), I noted that one of the stories, "Death & Company" (from the November 1930 Black Mask), had been out of print since 1947. At the time, I had it in my brain that...

Hammett Homicides, edited by "Ellery Queen," appeared in digest in 1946 and Dell Mapback in 1948.The stars of this collection are the two related novelettes “The House on Turk Street” and “The Girl with the Silver Eyes.” Originally from Black...

I've been rereading ALL of the Continental Op (short for Continental operator) stories, and as I mentioned earlier this month in a review of the first paperback collection, The Continental Op (that's HERE), that amounts to 28 stories (some of which a...

What is your book about? The newest entry in my South American mystery series brings my series characters P.I. Roger Bowman and his wife Suzanne back to Montevideo to attend a festive dinner honoring their friend’s promotion to police captain. Ther...

Not long ago, when I reread the complete adventures of the Continental Op, I thought one of the cooler stories was "The Gutting of Couffignal," which originally appeared in Black Mask back in December, 1925.In Hammett's story, a gang of thugs plan to...

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