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DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net wrote:
> As for gunsel, the Rara Avis site's glossary of
hardboiled
> slang contains Earl Stanley Gardner's story about
how Hammett
> got that word past editor Shaw and into the pages of
Black
> Mask. Here's the direct link:
>
> http://www.miskatonic.org/gooseberry.html
>
Cool link, Mark. The derivation of "shamus" is interesting,
too. Hammett had a wicked sense of humor.
Ed
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