Searching for old pulp era stories by Hammett, Chandler a
friend and I found a compilation of same and among the piece
included were several by one of my favourite bad hard-boiled
writers - Robert Leslie Bellam. Anyone familiar with this
sick and sad pleasure? JAA
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no
more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier
than a sober one ." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 8:00
PM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Chandler, Library of America
> On 16 March 2002, Etienne Borgers wrote:
>
> : So, later I discovered that in fact, the Essay in
that one was the
> : second version of it, that was originally
published in 1950 in :
> : 'Saturday Review of Literature' , April 1950. and
anthologized the
> : same year by Houghton Mifflin Cy. The first one
(that's the one I was
> : looking for, the historical one), shorter I think,
and *different* by
> : many aspects, was issued in 1944, in 'The Atlantic
Monthly', December
> : 44 and was issued later in Avon's anthology
'Finger Man and other
> : Stories'-1947.
>
> Two versions of "The Simple Art of Murder"? I knew
about the December
> 1944 ATLANTIC MONTHLY one, but a revised 1950
version ... this is
> fiendish! I thought the one I had was the original,
but from what you say
> it's the 1950 revision. I can understand the vast
majority of the world
> doesn't care one way or the other, but it's not hard
to clearly identify
> the bibliographic history of a story or essay in an
anthology.
>
> A glorious day awaits where we can go to the
bookstore or library and get
> ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN BY
RAYMOND CHANDLER, or
> Paul Cain, or Norbert Davis, or Hammett, or anyone
else from the old days.
>
> Bill
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: Caveat
lector.
>
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