Stein, who read police procedurals every day (or so she said)
and loved
Hammett (made a point of visiting him in one of her only
return to trips
to the US), also said this of detective fiction:
"I do like detective fiction. I never try to guess who has
done the
crime and if I did I would be sure to guess wrong but I liked
somebody
being dead and how it moves along and Dashiell Hammett was
all that and
more." (Everybody's Autobiography)
Anybody read Blood on the Dining-Room Floor, Stein's one and
only
detective novel?
Elliott Vanskike
Univ. Of Iowa
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