I'm still reading through CRIME STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS,
the Hammett anthology, and in the chronology at the back it
mentions that Hammett had a long-running affair with Raoul
Whitfield's wife! I hadn't known this, but there it is in
Joan Mellen's HELLMAN AND HAMMETT:
"It was at this time [January 1936] that, weakened as he was
by lung disease, venereal disease, and alcoholism, Dash began
a relationship with Pru Whitfield, the wife of BLACK MASK
writer Raoul Whitfield, who had himself fallen ill with
tuberculosis."
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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