when i read it, the first thing that occurred to me was that
the hollywood loser telling the story had *his* facts
wrong....
martha
sakana@stlnet.com <mailto:
sakana@stlnet.com>
::howay the lads::
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca [mailto:
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca]On
> Behalf Of Mark Sullivan
> I just finished The Poison Sky by John Shannon.
(Each book in the
> series gets even better.) Jack Liffey overhears the
following story:
>
> "I was going to tell you about the little game
Chandler had with his
> editor. That was over a forbidden word, too. . .
.
>
*snip*
>
> Now Wilmer was referred to as a gunsel in The
Maltese Falcon. So isn't
> this story actually about Hammett, not Chandler? Or
is there an
> equivalent story about Chandler?
> Mark
>
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