Lost Stories : 21 Long-Lost Stories from the Bestselling Creator of Sam Spade, the Maltese Falcon, and the Thin Man

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• ISBN13: 9780972589819
• ISBN10: 0972589813
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Vince Emery Productions

Summary

Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade,The Maltese Falcon, andThe Thin Man, was one of the 20th century's most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett's storiesincluding some of his besthave been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors, until now. This essential compendium rescues 21 long-lost Hammett stories, all either never collected in an anthology or unavailable for decades. These stories appear nowhere else, and represent a variety of styles from the famous mysterysmith: his first detective fiction, humorous satires, adventure yarns, a sensitive autobiographical piece, and a Thin Man story told with photos. In addition, all stories have been restored to their original versions, replacing often wholesale cuttings with the original text for the first time. To round out this celebration of Hammett, three-time Edgar Awardwinner Joe Gores has written an introduction describing how Hammett influenced literature, movies, television, and Gores' own life.

Author Biography

Dashiell Hammett was one of the world's most popular and influential writers. Famous as the best-selling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, Hammett was also a Pinkerton's detective, an advertising man, a soldier in the U.S. Army during both World Wars, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, a political activist, and a prolific short story writer. Joe Gores is a writer of novels, short stories, and screenplays, and the recipient of three Edgar Awards. He has written scripts for Kojak, Columbo, Magnum P.I., Remington Steele, and other television series. He is a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Gores' popular novels and stories about the detective firm Daniel Kearney Associates are based on his own 12 years of experience as a San Francisco private eye. He lives in Fairfax, California. Vince Emery is the founder of the publishing company Peer-to-Peer Communications. He has contributed research and articles to several books about Dashiell Hammett. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Table of Contents

Background	1	(8)
Vince Emery
Introduction: ``It Was a Diamond, All Right''	9	(24)
Joe Gores
PART ONE A Rough Start	33	(14)
PART TWO 1922, New Writer	47	(40)
The Barber and His Wife	52	(16)
The Parthian Shot	68	(3)
The Great Lovers	71	(2)
Immortality	73	(5)
The Road Home	78	(9)
PART THREE 1923, The Sixteen-Story Year	87	(96)
The Master Mind	88	(3)
The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody	91	(7)
The Joke on Eloise Morey	98	(12)
Holiday	110	(8)
The Crusader	118	(4)
The Green Elephant	122	(14)
The Dimple	136	(5)
Laughing Masks	141	(42)
PART FOUR 1924, Fiction Factory Slowdown	183	(22)
Itchy	185	(13)
Esther Entertains	198	(7)
PART FIVE 1925, Established Writer Quits?	205	(24)
Another Perfect Crime	207	(3)
Ber-Bulu	210	(19)
PART SIX 1926--1930, Ad Man and Novelist	229	(20)
The Advertising Man Writes a Love Letter	235	(14)
PART SEVEN 1930--1941, Rich and Famous	249	(76)
Night Shade	258	(10)
This Little Pig	268	(39)
The Thin Man and the Flack	307	(18)
PART EIGHT The Long Sunset	325