Tag Archives: Richard Layman

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 |

Hammett: Tracking Down Two “New” Stories by “Peter Collinson”

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Don

The Holiday Season seems to have uncorked Terry Zobeck! He’s back with another Mystery in Hammett Bibliography — and even better, he’s already got the mystery solved! Take another trip with Terry into the archives of the Library of Congress, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged "Ah Fate!", "Peter Collinson", "Strength", "The Barber and His Wife", "The Sardonic Star of Tom Doody", Bill Contento, Brief Stories, FictionMags Index, Library of Congress, Mike Humbert, pure texts, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The American Short Story |

Hammett: “Corkscrew”

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Don

Thanksgiving — the day of bounty, and plenty of it. I wonder, do we have any bounty to strew Up and Down These Mean Streets? How about The Return of Terry Zobeck? — who in a race to the finish with his coverage … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged "Corkscrew", "This King Business", Black Mask, Crime Stories, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Library of America, Lillian Hellman, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: James, Joyce

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Don

Tough one — this post from frequent Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck could be held over till August for LitCrit Month — nothing is more LitCrit than James Joyce and Finnegans Wake, right??? — or just popped online right now during … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged Butch Cassidy, James D. Horan, Jesse James, Liberty Book Club, Library of Congress, PM, Richard Layman, Stefan Heym, Terry Zobeck, The Forum, Upton Sinclair, Wild Bunch |

Hammett: “Who Killed Bob Teal?”

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Don

Step-by-step, story-by-story, Terry Zobeck is chipping away at the editing done to Hammett’s short stories by Frederic Dannay over fifty years ago, and this round returns with another tale of the Continental Op. Most Op tales take place in San … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco | Tagged "Slippery Fingers", "Who Killed Bob Teal?", "Women Politics and Murder", "Zigzags of Treachery", Black Mask, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Phil Cody, Pulps, pure texts, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, True Detective Mysteries, Zobeck Series One |

Hammett: “Vamping Samson”

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Don

For me a writer’s life is traditional biography superimposed over strict bibliography. I want to know what was written, when, why, and then follow the writings into print, especially print that occurred in the writer’s own lifetime, when it meant … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit | Tagged "Ber-Bulu", "The Barber and His Wife", "Vamping Samson", Experience, George Jean Nathan, H. Bedford-Jones, H. L. Mencken, Pulps, Richard Layman, Smart Set, Sunset, Terry Zobeck, The Editor, The Forum, Vince Emery |

Hammett: Thoughts on “House Burglary”

Posted on July 11, 2012 by Don

Wrapped in its art deco cover, the lost interview with Hammett from 1929 that Terry Zobeck located — “House Burglary Poor Trade” — is the author at a peak. Still writing for Black Mask. Not yet Hollywood. Charming, and willing to answer … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, Tour | Tagged "Death and Company", "House Burglary Poor Trade", "The SImple Art of Murder", "The Thin Man", Alfred Packer, Black Mask, Brooklyn Eagle, Eve Sanderson, Hammett Tour Book, Helen Herbert Foster, Jerome Weidman, Jo Hammett, John Jacobs, Raymond Chandler, Red Harvest, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Bookman, The Maltese Falcon Society |

Hammett: The Lost Interview

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Don

For Biography Month, what could Terry Zobeck dig up, with which to startle and amaze? How about a forgotten interview with Hammett, filled with a wealth of biographical detail? Here’s Terry: Hammett didn’t do many major interviews, other than … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective", "House Burglary Poor Trade", Black Mask, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Daily Express, Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook, Eve Sanderson, Helen Herbert Foster, James Cooper, John D. Squires, Richard Layman, Secret Agent X-9, Smart Set, Terry Zobeck, The Bookman, William F. Nolan |

Hammett: More “Op” Coinage

Posted on June 25, 2012 by Don

After his first stab at tracking down when the term “The Continental Op” came into play, Terry Zobeck returns to the pulps and books to search for more clews. When last seen he had found the Continental Op — cap C, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "Death and Company", "Fly Paper", "The Farewell Murder", "This King Business", Black Mask, Harry Block, Mystery Stories, Red Harvest, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Dain Curse |

Hammett: The Lineup for Including Murder

Posted on June 16, 2012 by Don

If you don’t have the issue of Clues with the Robert S. Powell article on Including Murder, you may wonder which stories would have made up what would have been Hammett’s first book, if it had been published — all Continental Op tales … Continue reading →