Brian,
What the hell was I thinking? Butte, of course. No copper in
Boise. Try that Jon Jackson novel if you haven't already: GO
BY GO, from MacMillan.
I must have been thinlking about that mystery conference they
hold in Boise.
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Thornton" <
tieresias@worldnet.att.net> To: <
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 06,
2005 7:27 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Another Heresy -- The
Black Mask and other pulp fiction
> Dennis Lynds wrote:
>
> > What I strongly suspect Hammett was doing in it
was trying to make a
buck
> > by
> > giving his perceived audience what they wanted,
and at the same time
> > metaphorically savage his hated
Boise.
>
> You're close, Dennis, but I think you're still one
state off. Poisonville
> isn't a literary avatar for Boise. If memory serves
correctly, it's an
> avatar for Butte, Montana. Hammett went there as a
Pinkerton
strike-breaker
> during the troubles with the Wobblies after the
I.W.W. tried to unionize
the
> poor Irish immigrants working that mammoth copper
mine there.
>
> All the Best-
>
> Brian Thornton
>
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