Volume 49, Number 2 · February 14, 2002
Mystery Man
By Margaret Atwood
The Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921–1960
edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett, and with a foreword by Josephine Hammett Marshall
Counterpoint, 649 pp., $40.00
Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers
by Jo Hammett, edited by Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett
Carroll and Graf, 172 pp., $30.00
Dashiell Hammett: Crime Stories & Other Writings
selected and edited by Steven Marcus
Library of America, 934 pp., $35.00
When I was a pre-adolescent spending summers in northern Canada, I read a lot of old detective fiction because it was there. When I'd got through the pile I read some of it over again, there being no library where I could go and get more. I didn't reread Erle Stanley Gardner or Ellery Queen: I found them dry. But I did reread Dashiell Hammett.
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