wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) (01/23/86)
Per requests:
HAMMETT, DASHIELL
The Big Knockover
The Gutting of Couffignal (Continental Op)
Fly Paper (Continental Op)
The Scorched Face (Continental Op)
This King Business (Continental Op)
The Gatewood Caper (Continental Op)
Dead Yellow Women (Continental Op)
Corkscrew (Continental Op)
Tulip (?)(unfinished novel)
The Big Knockover (Continental Op)
$106,000 Blood Money (Continental Op)
The Continental Op
The Tenth Clew (Continental Op)
The Golden Horseshoe (Continental Op)
The House In Turk Street (Continental Op)
The Girl With the Silver Eyes (Continental Op)
The Whosis Kid (Continental Op)
The Main Death (Continental Op)
The Farewell Murder (Continental Op)
The Dain Curse (Continental Op)
The Glass Key
The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade)
A Man Called Spade (Sam Spade)
Red Harvest (Continental Op)
The Thin Man (Nick & Nora Charles)
Note: "The Glass Key" apparently is a totally unconnected novel, as is the
unfinished novel "Tulip".
As always corrections to:
tektronix!tekigm2!wrd
--Bill--wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) (02/06/86)
Per additions sent me (see comments below):
HAMMETT, DASHIELL
The Big Knockover [Vintage Books]
The Gutting of Couffignal (Continental Op)
Fly Paper (Continental Op)
The Scorched Face (Continental Op)
This King Business (Continental Op)
The Gatewood Caper (Continental Op)
Dead Yellow Women (Continental Op)
Corkscrew (Continental Op)
Tulip (?)(unfinished novel)
The Big Knockover (Continental Op)
$106,000 Blood Money (Continental Op)
The Continental Op [Vintage Books]
The Tenth Clew (Continental Op)
The Golden Horseshoe (Continental Op)
The House In Turk Street (Continental Op)
The Girl With the Silver Eyes (Continental Op)
The Whosis Kid (Continental Op)
The Main Death (Continental Op)
The Farewell Murder (Continental Op)
The Dain Curse (Continental Op) [Vintage Books]
The Glass Key [Vintage Books]
The Maltese Falcon (Sam Spade) [Perma Books/Vintage Books]
A Man Called Spade (Sam Spade) [Dell Books]
A Man Called Spade
They Can Only Hang You Once
Too Many Have Lived
The Assistant Murderer
His Brother's Keeper
Red Harvest (Continental Op) [Vintage Books]
The Thin Man (Nick & Nora Charles) [Pocket Books/Vintage Books]
The following was sent to me by Geoff Loker of the University of Toronto
Department of Computer Science. The listings he furnished are from a book
entitled "Shadow Man: the Life of Dashiell Hammett" by Richard Lyman. What
is interesting is that the book titles are for the most part different, whether
these are Canadian books or what I do not know. What is more interesting is
that they list story titles not published to my knowledge in the States. A
comparison of story titles shows a totally different arrangement, etc. Since
these were published from 1944 on, they may reflect pre-McCarthy era before
Hammett was blacklisted as a Communist. Any way, for what they are worth:
$106,000 Blood Money [Spivak 1943]
The Big Knockover
$106,000 Blood Money
The Adventures of Sam Spade & Other Stories [Spivak 1944]
Too Many Have Lived
They Can Only Hang You Once
A Man Called Spade
The Assistant Murderer
Nightshade
The Judge Laughed Last
His Brother's Keeper
The Continental Op [Spivak 1945]
Fly Paper
Death On Pine Street
Zigzags of Treachery
The Farewell Murder
The Return of the Continental Op [Spivak 1945]
The Whosis Kid
The Gutting of Couffignal
Death and Company
One Hour
The Tenth Clue
Hammett Homicides [Spivak 1946]
The Main Death
Two Sharp Knives
Ruffian's Wife
Dead Yellow Women [Spivak 1946]
Dead Yellow Women
The Golden Horseshoe
House Dick
Who Killed Bob Teal?
The Green Elephant
The Hairy One
Nightmare Town [Spivak 1948]
Nightmare Town
The Scorched Face
Albert Pastor at Home
Corkscrew
The Creeping Siamese [Spivak 1950]
The Creeping Siamese
The Man Who Killed Dan Odams
The Nails in Mr. Cayterer
The Joke on Eloise Morey
Tom, Dick or Harry
This King Business
Woman in the Dark [Spivak 1951]
Arson Plus
Slippery Fingers
The Black Hat That Wasn't There
Woman in the Dark
Afraid of a Gun
Holiday
The Man Who Stood in the Way
A Man Named Thin [Spivak 1962]
A Man Named Thin
Wages of Crime
The Gatewood Caper
The Barber and His Wife
Itchy the Debonair
The Second-Story Angel
In the Morgue
When Luck's Running Good
A couple of other books of his (that fall into miscellaneous) were:
Creeps By Night [John Day 1931] -- an anthology of wierd stories, edited
by Hammett
Secret Agent X-9, Books One & Two [David McKay 1934] -- a two-volume
collection of his comic strip
The Battle of the Aleutians [Adak, Alaska: Intelligence Section, Field
Force Headquarters, Adak, 1944] by Hammett & Robert Colodny
The bibliography in Hammett's biography also had a list of his magazine
publications -- articles, stories, etc.
Can anyone else (Evelyn Leeper or ?) help out with what these books were/are?
Are there in fact some unpublished stories in the U.S. versions?
Comments, etc.:
tektronix!tekigm2!wrd
--Bill--johnnyr@ihu1n.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) (02/07/86)
Is anyone else getting sick to death of these pointless lists of titles that Bill Dippert keeps sending out and which are flooding this newsgroup. Sure, you can start by hitting the 'n' key a few times, but lately he seems to account for ~75% of the traffic here. I look to this newsgroup for timely and interesting reviews of current books, or for interesting question and answer exchanges, not for >100 line list of titles. If I really want to know the complete body of work of any particular author, it's easy enough to go to the libraryr and look in Books in Print. Enough is Enough!!!!! John Rosenberg AT&T-NS ihnp4!ihu1n!johnnyr
cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard) (02/08/86)
In article <322@ihu1n.UUCP> johnnyr@ihu1n.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) writes: >Is anyone else getting sick to death of these pointless lists >of titles that Bill Dippert keeps sending out... I like them. Of course I can't speak for everyone else. >... If I really want to know the complete >body of work of any particular author, it's easy enough to go >to the library and look in Books in Print. That works just fine... for books that are still in print. I suggest Mr. Dippert include some distinctive character sequence in future postings of this sort, so that Mr. Rosenberg can deposit a command in his KILL file to junk them. -- /''`\ Andre Guirard ([]-[]) High Weasel \ x / speak no evil ihnp4!mmm!cipher `-'
gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) (02/10/86)
In article <430@tekigm2.UUCP> wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) writes: > >The following was sent to me by Geoff Loker of the University of Toronto >Department of Computer Science. The listings he furnished are from a book >entitled "Shadow Man: the Life of Dashiell Hammett" by Richard Lyman. What >is interesting is that the book titles are for the most part different, whether >these are Canadian books or what I do not know. What is more interesting is >that they list story titles not published to my knowledge in the States. A >comparison of story titles shows a totally different arrangement, etc. Since >these were published from 1944 on, they may reflect pre-McCarthy era before >Hammett was blacklisted as a Communist. Any way, for what they are worth: > A list of Hammett books published by Spivak (all edited by Ellery Queen, by the way) > >Can anyone else (Evelyn Leeper or ?) help out with what these books were/are? >Are there in fact some unpublished stories in the U.S. versions? I guess a word of clarification is in order. According to Lyman's bibliography of Hammett's works, the Spivak books were only published in paperback (back in the days when the hardboiled detective fiction wasn't respectable enough for hardcover?). From the look of the dates, it would appear that the publisher was trying to come up with an annual collection of Hammett stories until they ran out. It also looks like Hammett's being blacklisted put an end to that idea. After Hammett became respectable again (after his death, and after the McCarthy scare died down), other collections of his short stories were done, but for some strange reason a good number of the stories which were collected in the Spivak books were put into the new collections. Confusingly enough, at least one of the later collections ("The Continental Op") was given the same title as a Spivak one, but the stories in it weren't all the same. Since the Spivak editions were paperback, they are probably very rare now, and I would hazard a guess that none of them would be available at a local library. The later collections, being hardcover, define what most of us know of Hammett's short stories, and, as Bill Dippert pointed out, do not contain all of the stories that the Spivak books did. According to the bibliography in Lyman's book, Hammett wrote over 70 short stories (as well as a good amount of articles, etc.), so the Spivak edition of Hammett's work doesn't even contain all his short stories. That means that there is a lot of uncollected Hammett out there. If only some publisher would collect it for us. -- Geoff Loker Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A4 USENET: {ihnp4 decwrl utzoo uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!gkloker CSNET: gkloker@toronto ARPANET: gkloker.toronto@csnet-relay
jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) (02/11/86)
In article <322@ihu1n.UUCP> johnnyr@ihu1n.UUCP (John R. Rosenberg) writes: >Is anyone else getting sick to death of these pointless lists >of titles that Bill Dippert keeps sending out and which are flooding >this newsgroup. No, it's just you. > If I really want to know the complete >body of work of any particular author, it's easy enough to go >to the libraryr and look in Books in Print. That doesn't work if the books aren't in print. Having them all here handy is a much more convenient way to find out if you've read the whole canon. Keep it up, Bill! -- Jim Gillogly {decvax, vortex}!randvax!jim jim@rand-unix.arpa