Re: RARA-AVIS: Dash / Peter
Bill Crider (abc@wt.net)
Fri, 2 Apr 1999 22:29:42 -0600 (CST)
If I recall accurately (a decreasingly likely happening),
Ellery Queen once
wrote that in the late 1800s "Peter Collins" was criminal slang
for
"nobody." So "Peter Collinson" would be "nobody's son." Hammett
used the
pseudonym earlier than "Arson Plus," though not for a mystery
story.
Bill Crider
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