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Tag Archives: newspaper action
Sinister Cinema: Juggling The Glass Key and Red Harvest
Today Evan Lewis in his digging through digital archives pulls up some interesting news articles from 1941, covering the birth of a film version of Hammett’s Red Harvest. Hollywood had decided not to do a new version of The Glass … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, Evan Lewis, newspaper action, Paulette Goddard, Red Harvest, The Glass Key, Veronica Lake
Hammett: Birthday 127
Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born on this date in 1894. I’ve done little birthday parties for him in the past (the home movie clip from ten years ago perhaps being the best), but for this one I’m going to let … Continue reading
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Tagged "First Aide to Murder", "The Assistant Murderer", Alec Rush, Evan Lewis, newspaper action, Saturday Home Magazine
Hammett: The Slaughter of Duller Characters
Two or three emails back the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook mentioned to me that Hammett had gone to France during the Great War. I told him, not as far as I know. But now there’s some evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged Evan Lewis, France, Kevin Cook, newspaper action, Tallulah Bankhead, The Great War, Willa Gray Martin
Hammett: Further Farewells
Following up on his track down of a newspaper reprint for “The Farewell Murder” the other day, Evan Lewis rounds up a few more! Surf over and give it a look. Obviously Hammett saw more action in newspapers than he … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Farewell Murder", Evan Lewis, John D. Squires, newspaper action, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: Another Farewell Murder
Evan Lewis keeps at his exploration of digital newspaper morgues, finding the Op yarn “The Farewell Murder” (1930) reprinted in December 1939 in the Detroit Free Press. How many Op reprints? How many times? How many papers? Maybe someday Evan … Continue reading
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Tagged "Death and Company", "The Farewell Murder", Black Mask, Detroit Free Press, Evan Lewis, newspaper action
Hammett: Three Silver Eyes
And today Evan Lewis pops up three more newsprint appearances for the excellent Hammett yarn “The Girl with the Silver Eyes.” A primo example of the casework of the Continental Op. Evan writes: This final feature focusing on The Girl … Continue reading
Hammett: And Yet Another “Silver Eyes”
Today Evan Lewis pops another newsprint reprint of Hammett’s Op yarn “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” — Camden, December 1938. Since he’s already done the full spread with all the text at least a couple of times, this round … Continue reading
Hammett: More “Silver Eyes”
And today Evan Lewis tosses up yet another newsprint appearance for the Op yarn “The Girl with the Silver Eyes,” Pittsburgh, December 1936. Plus some ads from Allentown blurbing an October 1938 reprint for this primo Op adventure in that … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", Bogie, Carroll John Daly, Evan Lewis, newspaper action
Hammett: “Silver Eyes”
Evan Lewis pulled another reprint Hammett yarn from the newsprint of yesteryear today — “The Girl with the Silver Eyes” (a stone-cold classic) from the Vancouver Sun, 1936. Check it out. Profusely illustrated.
Hammett: And More “Pickup”
Today Evan Lewis digs deeper into the newsprint archives of yesteryear. Recently he spotlighted an appearance of “Pickup” (a.k.a. “The Whosis Kid”) in a Philly paper. “This time,” Evan says, “we present stuff from the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph (July 1936), The Camden Courier-Post (Dec. 1938) … Continue reading
