Tag Archives: Lillian Hellman

Hammett: It’s Almost Like Clockwork. . .

Posted on June 22, 2017 by Don

Yesterday Jeopardy! dropped Hammett back into their clew stew in the Jeopardy Round, in the “toughest” slot — $1000 — in the category Literary Hodgepodge: Dashiell Hammett dedicated “The Thin Man” to this fellow writer and longtime love The contestant … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged Jeopardy!, Lillian Hellman |

Hammett: Birthday 121

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Don

Shot above, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett — who get stacks of their old mail officially donated to the University of South Carolina today, the 121st anniversary of Hammett’s birth. Terry “Mr. Pure Texts” Zobeck and I had a little … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News, Tour | Tagged Humanities Research Center, Jo Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Random House, Richard Layman, University of South Carolina |

Hammett: “The Gatewood Thing” Caper

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Don

Today is the 54th anniversary of the death of Dashiell Hammett — and starts us toward the five year marker for this blog (although the website itself kicked off in late 2000 — hey, a fifteen year anniversary!). As a mini-memorial, how about a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "Crooked Souls", "Death and Company", "The Gatewood Caper", "The Gatewood Thing", Black Mask, Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Lillian Hellman, Pulps, pure texts, PW, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover |

Hammett: All He Wrote

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Don

And now, on Birthday 120, it is time to do a recount — we’ll call these The Zobeck Statistics. As anyone who has been on the tour knows, I personally count The Big Knockover as a novel (if a short novel), … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Tour | Tagged "Immortality", "The Figure of Incongruity", "The Man Who Loved Ugly Women", "The Parthian Shot", A Man Named Thin, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Humanities Research Center, Lillian Hellman, Paul Herman, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover, The Hunter and Other Stories |

Hammett: Zobeck Takes on The Hunter and Other Stories

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Don

And in celebration of Birthday 120 for Hammett, how about the thoughts of a long-time Hammett fan and collector on the most recent collection of his stories? Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s Terry Zobeck: Back in October Don reviewed The … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News | Tagged "A Knife Will Cut for Anybody", "An Inch and a Half of Glory", "Faith", "Monk and Johnny Foxx", "On the Way", "So I Shot Him", "The Cure", "The Diamond Wager", "The Hunter", "Tulip", Biblioctopus, Bill Pronzini, City Streets, Detective Fiction Weekly, Devil's Playground, Harper's Bazaar, Jack Adrian, James Crumley, Julie Rivett, Lillian Hellman, Mr. Dynamite, On the Make, Otto Penzler, PW, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Hunter and Other Stories, The Kiss-Off, The New Yorker, The Strand Magazine |

Sinister Cinema: La Cuidad Maldita

Posted on December 13, 2013 by Don

Previously on this blog, our pal from Spain — Dr. Jesús Ángel González López — tipped the Up and Down These Mean Streets community to the existence of a movie version of Hammett’s Red Harvest that many — probably most — of … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, News | Tagged Alberto de Stefanis, Alberto Grimaldi, Chet Bacon, Clint Eastwood, Gianni Garko, Hamilton Nash, James Coburn, Jason E. Squire, Jesus Angel Gonzales Lopez, Juan Bosch, La Cuidad Maldita, Lillian Hellman, Red Harvest, Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Western, William Powell |

Hammett: “On the Way”

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Don

Of the three known Hammett short stories that have never been reprinted, one has not yet been found, and the other two never have seen reprint in either a Hammett collection or some random anthology. Scanmaster Evan Lewis has tracked … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged "On the Way", "The Thin Man", Evan Lewis, Harper's Bazaar, Lillian Hellman |

Hammett: More “Corkscrew”

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Don

Add Evan Lewis to the list of people — alongside me, Terry Zobeck, Lillian Hellman —who dig the Hammett western satire “Corkscrew.” He just put up a post talking about it and the other contents of the Dell Mapback Nightmare … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged "Corkscrew", "Death and Company", "It", Evan Lewis, Frederic Dannay, Lillian Hellman, pure texts, Terry Zobeck |

Hammett: “Corkscrew” Part III

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Don

When Frederic Dannay, a.k.a. Ellery Queen, collected the Continental Op yarn “Corkscrew” in the 1948 Lawrence Spivak digest Nightmare Town, he resurrected it from the crumbling wood pulp pages of Black Mask much like Dr. Frankenstein rescued the monster from the grave … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged "Corkscrew", Black Mask, Frederic Dannay, Lillian Hellman, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: “Corkscrew” Part II

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Don

As Terry Zobeck noted in the first part of his pure text survey for “Corkscrew,” the editorial changes were rampant — scanning down this post and then the next post will give you the clew. A hell of a lot … Continue reading →