Re: RARA-AVIS: RE: Hammett's acolytes

From: Michael Robison ( zspider@gte.net)
Date: 02 Dec 2003


Vince Emery wrote: Charles Willeford wrote about his admiration of The Maltese Falcon, saying that he re-read it every year.

******************** It was about the only thing that impressed him about Hammett. He said he had read RED HARVEST, and I believe others, and had no desire to read them again. Willeford's opinion of THE THIN MAN was that it was unreadable.

miker

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