E. R. hagemann has an essay on You Play the Red . . . in
Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties. He quotes the reviewer for
the New York Herald Tribune Books: "this is a phony, but it's
a pretty slick job. . . . After it is all over you feel sort
of disgusted with yourself for having strung along with him."
Hagemann says, "This is demonstrably incorrect, for Hallas
was too good a writer, too much a talented observer, to waste
his efforts on such as that."
I enjoyed Richard Moore's post on the market in 1933. For
short story writers, the rates haven't really improved that
much, as Richard probably knows. And Richard, like me, has
recently read the "story" that Hammett sold Ten Story Book.
No one who didn't know the author would ever guess it was by
Hammett. It's only a paragraph long. If he got $6 for it, he
was overpaid. I like the idea, though, that Hammett was first
published in a magazine edited by the (and I say this without
fear of contradiction) inimitable Harry Stephen Keeler.
Bill Crider
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