Tag Archives: The Dain Curse

Hammett: And Machen

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Don

Around Xmas, as I was in the midst of that big reread of H. P. Lovecraft I alluded to a couple of times, I got the urge to do yet another reread on the Dyson stories by Arthur Machen — for … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Hammett: Coining “The Continental Op”

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Don

Was it Cap Shaw? Was it some unheralded editorial assistant? Terry Zobeck plunged into his Black Mask collection to check on who first used the coinage “The Continental Op” to describe Hammett’s short fat Frisco sleuth. That’s with a capital … Continue reading →

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Hammett: A Couple of Thoughts on Including Murder

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Don

As I’ve been brooding over the Robert S. Powell article about the first Continental Op collection Including Murder, two kind of random thoughts hit me: First, Powell describes the emendations in pencil on the tearsheets as being done in a … Continue reading →

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Hammett: “The Black Hat That Wasn’t There”

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Don

And Terry Zobeck is back, with more info on the Op yarn “It” — here’s Terry: Frederic Dannay reprinted “It” — which first appeared in the November 1, 1923 issue of Black Mask — in his 1951 collection Woman in the Dark.Among … Continue reading →

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