Dick Lochte wrote:
> Around the time he was starting to appear in Black
Mask, Hammett wrote a
> short article for the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set
magazine, "From the Memoirs
> of a Private Detective." One of his memories was: "I
know a man who once
> stole a Ferris-wheel." Welles made it a touch more
dramatic, I guess, by
> having Hammett find the wheel, though that may be
the implication in the
> article.
In fact, on the Orson Welles show, Welles made prominent the
fact that neither Hammett nor anyone else had ever uncovered
the secret of what happened to the Ferris wheel.
Jim Beaver
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