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Hi, all--
Does anybody know whether Hammett ever gave The Old Man in the Continental
Op stories a name? "Pontius Pilate" doesn't count. I'm making a
comparison of Frederick Nebel's Donahue and the Op and am trying to find
as many parallels as possible. I've already checked _Red Harvest_, _The
Dain Curse_, and the collections _The Big Knockover_ and _TCO_. No soap.
Eddie? Bill?
Also:
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, e j m duggan wrote:
> In the December 1929 issue of Black Mask, Joe Shaw makes a whole-page
> appeal to readers, under the banner 'HELP!'. Shaw asks readers to return a
> tear-off coupon, stating their favourite story in this issue, and their
> favourite story from the previous six issues.
_Detective Fiction Weekly_ did this too, but with a twist: if the reader
enclosed ten mastheads from past issues, s/he was entered in a drawing for
a piece of original cover art! If the editors had known how valuable
those paintings would be in sixty years, they would have insisted on
twenty POPs... :)
Kathy
Katherine Harper
Department of English
Bowling Green State University
Visit the W.R. Burnett Page at http://ernie.bgsu.edu/~kharper/
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