Thing is, each of these is actually a magazine, or
magabook/magazine-book if one prefers (except, presumably,
the World reprint).
MERCURY MYSTERY ran the longest, but BESTSELLER MYSTERY and
JONATHAN PRESS MYSTERY had good runs as well. Distributed as
magazines and on the magazine racks, they were issued
periodically, as advertised in F&SF and EQMM issues...and
since they were in digest magazine format, I'm surprised to
see the tendency to treat them as books per se so prevalent.
But, I suppose, since paperbacks generally were often treated
by their distributors as periodicals... TM
-----Original Message----- From:
dgreene@odu.edu [mailto:
dgreene@odu.edu] I believe that I have all the
digest-sized "paperbacks" [magazine issues] by Hammett,
published by [Mercury Press owners] Spivak (and one by
Ferman) under varying imprints
[magazine titles]:
Dashiell Hammett. The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other
Stories, ed. Ellery Queen. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak
(Bestseller Mystery B50), 1944.
Contains 7 stories
including 4 detective stories, 3 of which feature Sam
Spade..
_____. The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories.
Cleveland: World, 1945.
Reprint with reset type
of the Bestseller Mystery edition, but without the Queen
introduction.
_____. They Can Only Hang You Once and Other Stories, ed.
Ellery Queen. New York: The American Mercury, Lawrence E.
Spivak (Mercury Mystery 131), c. 1944.
A new edition (1949) with
rearranged contents of The Adventures of Sam Spade.
_____. The Continental Op, ed. Ellery Queen. New York:
Lawrence E. Spivak
(Bestseller Mystery B62), 1945.
Contains 4 Continental Op
detective stories.
_____. The Return of the Continental Op, introd. [and ed.] by
Ellery Queen. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak (Jonathan Press
J17), 1945.
Contains 5 Continental Op
detective stories.
_____. Hammett Homicides, ed. Ellery Queen. New York:
Lawrence E. Spivak
(Bestseller Mystery B81), 1946.
Contains 6 stories,
including 5 detective stories, all but one featuring the
Continental Op.
_____. Dead Yellow Women, ed. Ellery Queen. New York:
Lawrence E. Spivak
(Jonathan Press J29), 1947.
Contains 4 Continental Op
detective stories, one crime story and one riddle
story.
_____. Nightmare Town, ed Ellery Queen. New York: The
American Mercury, Lawrence E. Spivak, 1948.
Contains 4 stories, 2 of
which feature the Continental Op.
_____. The Creeping Siamese, ed. Ellery Queen. New York:
Lawrence E. Spivak (Jonathan Press J48), 1950.
Contains 6 stories, 4 of
which are detective; 3 feature the Continental Op and one Mr.
Thin.
_____. Woman in the Dark, ed. Ellery Queen. New York:
Lawrence E. Spivak
(Jonathan Press J59), 1951.
Contains 7 stories,
including 3 detective stories featuring the Continental
Op.
_____. A Man Named Thin and Other Stories, ed. Ellery Queen.
New York: Joseph W. Ferman (Mercury Mystery 233), 1962.
Contains 8 stories, 2 of
which are detective; one features the Continental Op and one
Mr. Thin.
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