Dashiell Hammett

[Checkman]

During our recent road trip vacation (we drove to Cape May, N.J. and then back to Idaho) to see our son graduate from Coast Guard Boot Camp we saw many great sights, visited family in Nebraska and Michigan and stopped at many thrift stores from New Jersey to Idaho. I found several great books. Among them is the anthology "The Big Knockover" (1965). Short stories by Dashiell Hammett with an introduction written by Lillian Hellman. Most of the stories are about his famous creation The Continental Op. I've never actually read any of Hammett's writings. I've just watched movie and television adaptations of his works. You know Hammett could write some pretty good yarns. It's never too late to discover something new I guess.

 

[GNTLGNT]

During our recent road trip vacation (we drove to Cape May, N.J. and then back to Idaho) to see our son graduate from Coast Guard Boot Camp we saw many great sights, visited family in Nebraska and Michigan and stopped at many thrift stores from New Jersey to Idaho. I found several great books. Among them is the anthology "The Big Knockover" (1965). Short stories by Dashiell Hammett with an introduction written by Lillian Hellman. Most of the stories are about his famous creation The Continental Op. I've never actually read any of Hammett's writings. I've just watched movie and television adaptations of his works. You know Hammett could write some pretty good yarns. It's never too late to discover something new I guess.

...old dog...new pages...

 

[muskrat]

Hammett is good, yer bugger. I tend to gravitate more towards Raymond Chandler (probably my all time favorite writer), but ol Dash has his moments. I guess it's probably unfair to even compare the two, but I'm just thinking of their old Black Mask days. Cheap pulp detectives rock!

 

[Checkman]

Hammett is good, yer bugger. I tend to gravitate more towards Raymond Chandler (probably my all time favorite writer), but ol Dash has his moments. I guess it's probably unfair to even compare the two, but I'm just thinking of their old Black Mask days. Cheap pulp detectives rock!

Very true.

 

[Kurben]

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During our recent road trip vacation (we drove to Cape May, N.J. and then back to Idaho) to see our son graduate from Coast Guard Boot Camp we saw many great sights, visited family in Nebraska and Michigan and stopped at many thrift stores from New Jersey to Idaho. I found several great books. Among them is the anthology "The Big Knockover" (1965). Short stories by Dashiell Hammett with an introduction written by Lillian Hellman. Most of the stories are about his famous creation The Continental Op. I've never actually read any of Hammett's writings. I've just watched movie and television adaptations of his works. You know Hammett could write some pretty good yarns. It's never too late to discover something new I guess.

avent read much of his short stories but i like his few novels! Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key and, of course The Thin Man. If you can dig Chandler and John. D. MacDonald you can dig Hammett too.