"I seen that book.."?
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison [mailto:
zspider@gte.net] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:45 PM
To:
rara-avis@icomm.ca Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re:
Whitfield
Bill Denton said:
> 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.
********** Darn it! I seen that book tonight at the
bookstore. I remembered in your bibliography that you
mentioned two books of collected stories that got you the
lion's share of his works, but I couldn't remember the
specifics. I almost bought it anyway, but then I seen that it
had some weird version of THE THIN MAN in it, and I've got
the plain vanilla version and I'm not interested in another
one, and I figured a novel in a work of collected stories
would take up a big chunk of real estate in the book.
I wandered into a second-hand store in town tonight and
looked at the books and was amazed at the total lack of
hardly any mysteries, let alone hardboiled, but then my eyes
caught AN UNFINISHED WOMAN. I thought, "Hmm, the only women I
know are unsatisfied." I looked a little closer and noticed
it's Lillian Hellman's memoirs. I bought it for 69 cents,
plus tax. Maybe I'll find out who she was fucking while
Hammett was doing his buddy Raoul's wife.
miker
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