--- Bob Toomey <
btoomey@javanet.com> wrote:
> Re : Hammett
>
> Interesting article with a lot of speculation,
no
> definitive answers,
> and at least one downright inaccuracy:
>
> Hammett thought Red Harvest his best
> novel; so did highbrow critics. Robert
> Graves called it "a literary landmark,"
> and Andre Gide dubbed it "the last word
> in atrocity, cynicism, and horror" (one
> assumes Gide meant it as compliment).
>
> In fact Hammett considered THE GLASS KEY to be
his
> best novel.
>
> BobT
> --
Agreed! And in fact, by all means [how good RH is, AND
how important for crime lit development that book is] THE
GLASS KEY is Hammett's best novel.
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