> Bill Crider <abc@wt.net> wrote:
[SNIP]
> > I'm a big fan of KISS TOMORROW GOOD-BYE, in
either of
> > its versions. (I read the longer one first,
before I
> > knew that it was published earlier in a shorter
form.)
Looking through the McCoy pamphlet (Western Writers Series
#51) I see
there are two versions of _They Shoot Horses, Don't
They?_
There was a short story version of "TSH,DT?" in 1932, and the
novel
version appeared in 1935. Apparently, critics of the novel
thought it
derivative of James M. Cain's 1934 TPART [the discussion in
the pamphlet
seeks to address this by establishing McCoy's
chronology].
I would imagine something similar was the case with KTG-B, or
maybe it
was serialised in a pulp, as was the case most of Hammett's
novels.
ED
PS: Looking in Nolan's _The Black Mask Boys_ there's no
mention of a
revision of _TSH,DT?_, but there *is* mention of a revision
of _No
Pockets In A Shroud_.
Seems McCoy bibliographica is pretty complex ;-).
PPS: DHS [SNIP the digest ... not!] lol 8~)
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