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(with Robert Colodny) The Battle of the Aleutians. Adak, Alaska: Alaska Intelligence Section, Field Force Headquarters, 1944.
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921–1960. Ed. Richard Layman with Julie M. Rivett. Washington: Counterpoint, 2001.
MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS
“The Parthian Shot.” Smart Set, October 1922.
“From the Memoirs of a Private Detective.” Smart Set, March 1923.
“Holiday.” New Pearson’s, July 1923.
“Arson Plus.” Black Mask, October 1,1923.
“Laughing Masks.” Action Stories, November 1923.
“Bodies Piled Up.” Black Mask, December 1, 1923.
“The Tenth Clew.” Black Mask, January 1, 1924.
“Zigzags of Treachery.” Black Mask, March 1, 1924.
“The House in Turk Street.” Black Mask, April 15, 1924.
“The Girl with the Silver Eyes.” Black Mask, June 1924.
“Nightmare Town.” Argosy All-Story Weekly, December 27, 1924.
“The Whosis Kid.” Black Mask, March 1925.
“The Scorched Face.” Black Mask, May 1925.
“Corkscrew.” Black Mask, September 1925.
“Ruffian’s Wife.” Sunset Magazine, October 1925.
“The Gutting of Couffignal.” Black Mask, December 1925.
“The Creeping Siamese.” Black Mask, March 1926.
“The Big Knock-Over.” Black Mask, February 1927.
“$106,000 Blood Money.” Black Mask, May 1927.
Red Harvest. In four parts. Black Mask: “The Cleansing of Poisonville” (November 1927); “Crime Wanted—Male or Female” (December 1927); “Dynamite” (January 1928); “The 19th Murder” (February 1928).
The Dain Curse. In four parts. Black Mask: “Black Lives” (November 1928); “The Hollow Temple” (December 1928); “Black Honeymoon” (January 1929); “Black Riddle” (February 1929).
“Fly Paper.” Black Mask, August 1929.
The Maltese Falcon. In five parts. Black Mask: September 1929; October 1929; November 1929; December 1929; January 1930.
The Glass Key. In four parts. Black Mask: “The Glass Key” (March 1930); “The Cyclone Shot” (April 1930); “Dagger Point” (May 1930); “The Shattered Key” (June 1930).
“Behind the Black Mask.” Black Mask, June 1930.
“A Man Called Spade.” American Magazine, July 1932.
“Woman in the Dark.” In three parts. Liberty: April 8, 15, and 22, 1933.
“The Thin Man.” Redbook, December 1933. Bowdlerized condensed version of the novel.
Secret Agent X-9. Syndicated by King Features Syndicate: daily, January 29, 1934 to April 27, 1935.
“This Little Pig.” Collier’s. March 24, 1934.
“A Man Named Thin.” Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, March 1961.
“The Thin Man.” Fragment of unfinished novel. City Magazine, November 4, 1975.
MOVIE ADAPTATIONS OF HAMMETT’S NOVELS
Roadhouse Nights (1930), Yojimbo (1961), A Fistful of Dollars (1964) (based on Red Harvest).
The Dain Curse (1978).
The Glass Key (1935), The Glass Key (1942).
The Maltese Falcon (1931), Satan Met a Lady (1936), The Maltese Falcon (1941).
The Thin Man (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), Another Thin Man (1939), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), The Song of the Thin Man (1947).
Woman in the Dark (1934).
HAMMETT’S SCREENPLAYS
City Streets. Oliver H. P. Garrett from adaptation by Max Marcin. DH original story. Paramount, 1931.
Mister Dynamite. Doris Malloy and Harry Clork. DH original story. Universal, 1935.
Watch on the Rhine. DH. Edited with additional scenes LH. Warner Brothers, 1943.
WORKS BY LILLIAN HELLMAN
Plays and Adaptations
The Children’s Hour. New York: Knopf, 1934.
Days to Come. New York: Knopf, 1936.
The Little Foxes. New York: Random House, 1939.
Watch on the Rhine. New York: Random House, 1941.
The Searching Wind. New York: Viking, 1944.
Another Part of the Forest. New York: Viking, 1947.
Montserrat. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1949.
The Autumn Garden: A Play in Three Acts. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951.
The Lark. New York: Random House, 1956.
Candide, A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire’s Satire. Score by Leonard Bernstein. Lyrics by Richard Wilbur. Other lyrics by John Latouche and Dorothy Parker. New York: Random House, 1957.
Toys in the Attic. New York: Random House, 1960.
My Mother, My Father and Me. Based on Burt Blechman’s novel How Much? New York: Random House, 1963.
Four Plays: The Children’s Hour, Days to Come, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine. Introduction by Lillian Hellman. New York: Random House, 1942.
MEMOIRS
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir. Boston, New York & London: Little, Brown, 1969; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits. Boston, New York & London: Little, Brown, 1973; London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1974.
Scoundrel Time. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976; London & New York: Quartet, 1978.
Maybe: A Story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980; London, Melbourne & New York: Quartet, 1981.
Three: An Unfinished Woman, Pentimento, Scoundrel Time. With new commentaries by the author. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.
BOOKS ABOUT HAMMETT
Adams, Franklin Pierce. The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys, vol. 2. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. & Richard Layman, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series, vol. 6: Hardboiled Mystery Writers Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross MacDonald. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.
Dooley, Dennis. Dashiell Hammett. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1984.
Gores, Joe. Hammett: A Novel. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975.
Gregory, Sinda. Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett. Carbondale & Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985.
Herron, Don. The Dashiell Hammett Tour. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1991.
Johnson, Diane. Dashiell Hammett: A Life. New York: Random House, 1983.
Layman, Richard. Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 1979.
———. Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett. San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981.
———. Dashiell Hammett. Literary Masters, vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 2000.
Marling, William. Dashiell Hammett. New York: Twayne, 1983.
Marshall, Jo Hammett. Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers. Ed. Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
Nolan, William F. Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook. Santa Barbara: McNally & Loftin, 1969.
———. Hammett: A Life at the Edge. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983; London: Arthur Barker, 1983.
Symons, Julian. Dashiell Hammett. San Diego & New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Wolfe, Peter. Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1980.
BOOKS ABOUT HAMMETT, HELLMAN, AND THEIR CIRCLE
Bryer, Jackson R., ed. Conversations with Lillian Hellman. Jackson, Mississippi, and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1986.
Cerf, Bennett. At Random. New York: Random House, 1977.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. A Biography. London: John Murray, 1997; New York: Overlook Press, 1998; paperback: John Murray, 1998.
———. “Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett: Memories or Myths.” Unpublished manuscript.
Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson: A Biography. New York: Ballantine, 1989.
Ephron, Nora. Imaginary Friends. New York: Random House, 2002.
Feibleman, Peter. Lilly: Reminiscences of Lillian Hellman. London: Chatto &
Windus, 1989.
Gide, André. Journals, vol. 4: 1939–1949. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Griffin, Alice and Geraldine Thorsten. Understanding Lillian Hellman. Columbia: South Carolina University Press, 1999.
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. London: Virago, 1983.
Kael, Pauline. For Keeps: Thirty Years at the Movies. New York: Dutton, 1994.
Kessler-Harris, Alice. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012.
Kober, Arthur. “Having Terrible Time.” Unpublished autobiography. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Martinson, Deborah. Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels. New York: Counterpoint, 2005.
Mellen, Joan. Hellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. New York: HarperCollins, 1996; New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.
Nagamani, Tenneti. The Plays of Lillian Hellman: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Prestige, 2001.
Rader, Dotson. Cry of the Heart: An Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams. New York: New American Library, 1985.
Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth. Mencken: The American Iconoclast. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Rollyson, Carl. Lillian Hellman: Her Legend and Her Legacy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988; San Jose, New York: toExcel, 1999.
Weidman, Jerome. The Sound of Bow Bells. New York: Random House, 1962.
ARTICLES ABOUT HAMMETT AND HELLMAN
Atwood, Margaret. “Mystery Writer.” Guardian Saturday Review, February 16, 2002.
Berger, Marilyn. “Profile: Lillian Hellman” (1979). In Jackson R. Bryer, ed. Conversations with Lillian Hellman, 232–73. Jackson, Mississippi, and London: University Press of Mississippi. 1986.
Cantwell, Mary. “Comparative: Lillian Hellman, J.D. Salinger.” Vogue, October 1998.
Chandler, Raymond. “The Simple Art of Murder.” Atlantic Monthly, December 1944.
Cline, Sally. “Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett: Treasures in the Archives.” Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Newsletter, fall 2007.
Fechheimer, David, ed. City of San Francisco Magazine, November 4, 1975.
Freeman, D. “Sam Spade’s San Francisco (Seeing the City Through the Author’s Eyes).” Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1992.
Gardner, Fred. “An Interview with Lillian Hellman.” In Jackson R. Bryer, ed. Conversations with Lillian Hellman, 107–23. Jackson, Mississippi, and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1986.
Harriman, Margaret Case. “Miss Lily of New Orleans.” New Yorker, November 8, 1941.
Johnson, Diane. “Obsession.” Vanity Fair, January 1985.
Parker, Dorothy. “Oh, Look—Two Good Books!” New Yorker, April 25, 1931.
Rae, B. “New Mystery Writers.” The New York Times, May 3, 1931.
Rivett, Julie M. “On Finding My Grandfather’s Love Letters” (unpublished essay), 2001.
Symons, Julian. “Why the Writing Had to Stop.” The New York Times, May 8, 1983.
INDEX
A
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 133
Actors’ Equity Association, 174
Adakian, The, 168
Adams, Franklin P., 80
Adventures of Sam Spade, The (radio serial), 170, 189
Adventures of the Thin Man, The (radio show), 189
After the Thin Man, 128
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), 114
Alexander, Muriel, 179, 186
American Legion, 179
Americans for Democratic Action, 193
Another Part of the Forest (Hellman), 137, 173, 175
Arbuckle, Fatty, 33, 34
Arnstein, Nicky, 33–34
“Arson Plus” (1923), 45–47
Asbury, Helen, 88
Asbury, Herbert, 64, 81
Atkinson, Brooks, 125
Atlantic Monthly, 47
Auster, Paul, 68
Autumn Garden, The (Hellman), 181
B
Bad Companions (Roughead), 107
Baltimore, Maryland, 3–4
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 15, 16
Bankhead, Tallulah, 90, 152
Battle of the Aleutians, The, 168–169
Benchley, Robert, 125
Bentley, E. C., 43
Bentley, Eric, 121
Berkeley, Martin, 145, 188
Black Mask magazine, 4, 11, 21, 42, 45, 49, 52, 58, 64, 65, 78
Black Thursday, 78
Block, Harry, 65, 71–72
“Bodies Piled Up” (1923), 45
Bogart, Humphrey, 73, 78
Bond, Annie. See Dashiell, Annie Bond
Bookman, 64
Brooks, Walter R., 64, 69, 81, 101
C
Carter, Allan, 35, 36
Celebrated Criminal Cases of America (Duke), 111
Cerf, Bennett, 153, 169
Chamberlain, Neville, 144
Chandler, Raymond, xvii, 47
Chesterton, G. K., 43
Children’s Hour, The (Hellman)
bans on, 125
censorship issues and screen rights, 131–132
earnings from theatrical production, 130
favorable reviews of, 121, 125
film adaptation as These Three, 132, 136
inspired by the Great Drumsheugh Case, 120–121
lack of awards for, due to “inappropriate” subject matter, 125–126
lesbianism in, 94–95, 120–121, 125
relationship to the novel The Well of Loneliness (Hall), 95, 121
staging of, 121
telegrams to Hellman prior to show opening, 123
writing, 115, 119
Christie, Agatha, 43
City Streets, 86–87
Civil Rights Congress, 174, 182–184, 186
“Cleansing of Poisonville, The” (1927–1928), 58–59
Collier’s, 115
Colodny, Robert, 169
Communist Party. See also Hammett, Dashiell
dangers of being a “known Red,” 179
in Hollywood, 132–133, 145–146
and the HUAC investigation of subversive activities, 145, 174, 175
Jefferson School of Social Science established by, 170
left-wing writers and artists in, 179
Popular Front (civil rights issues as focus of), 146–147
response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, in support of Russia, 154
wealthy celebrities sought by, 145
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 43
Conference of Studio Unions, 174
Continental Op, xviii, xx, 14, 17, 45–47, 59–60, 66–68, 73
Coolidge, Calvin, 57
Cooper, Gary, 86, 87
Cooper, James, 199
crime
in America, as setting of Hammett’s stories, 57–59, 75–76
organized crime, 58
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, xviii, 16–18, 32–33. See also Hammett, Dashiell
statistics from 1910–1930, 75–76
crime writing. See also Hammett, Dashiell: novels; short stories; writing
Golden Age of Detection, 43
Bentley, E. C., 43
Chesterton, G. K., 43
Christie, Agatha, 43
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 43
Marsh, Ngaio, 43
Milne, A. A., 43
Poe, Edgar Allan, 43
Sayers, Dorothy, 43
Van Dine, S. S., 43
Hammett’s departure from traditional style of, 64
Hammett’s influence on, xvii, 42–44, 81, 202
hard-boiled fiction
Chandler, Raymond, xvii, 47
Daly, Carroll John, 42–43
Hammett as inventor of hard-boiled detective, xviii
MacDonald, Ross, xvii
horror, 45
mystery, 76, 107, 170. See also Black Mask magazine
private investigator ficti
on. See Continental Op; Maltese Falcon, The
suspense, Edgar Allan Poe, 43
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 13
Curtis, William, 81
Cushman Sanatorium, 23, 25, 30
D
Daily Worker, 174
Dain Curse, The (1929)
appearance versus reality theme in, 67
Californian mysticism in, 68
episodic structure of, 66, 67–68, 72
Holy Grail allegory in, 68
plot developed from “The Scorched Face” (1925), 66
publication and reviews of, 69
revisions required prior to publication of, 65–66
serialization of in Black Mask, 63–64, 65
writing, 64
Daly, Carroll John, 42–43
Dark Angel, The (Hellman), 131–132
Dashiell, Annie Bond, 4–5, 9–11, 22, 35, 70, 80
Dashiell, Mrs. (Hammett’s grandmother), 4
Daugherty, Harry M., 57
Days to Come (Hellman), 130, 138, 139–140
De Viane, Elise, 94
Dead End (Kingsley), 147
“Description of a Struggle” (Kafka), 60
detective fiction. See crime writing
Detective Story (Kingsley), 180, 181
Dolan, Hubert, 24
Dolan, Josephine (Josie, Jose)
childhood, 24
comparisons to Hammett’s mother Annie, 25, 28
and Hammett
absence from funeral of, 202
acceptance of “second self” of, 53–54, 95
early separation due to illness of, 49–50, 51
first impressions of, 23–24
in LA, in later life, 180–181
letters from, 25–28, 52, 162–163
love story, 22
Mexican divorce from, 149
pregnancy and marriage, xx, 31–32
separation from, and enduring loyalty and support of wife and daughters, 69–70, 85, 98–100, 105–106, 113, 120, 134–135, 137–138
Hammett’s names for, 26
and Hammett’s writing career, 49
lenient parenting style, 99
and Lillian Hellman’s affair with Hammett, 96–97, 105
loneliness, 105
nursing career, 24–25
Douglas, Donald, 81
Dyer, Lucy E., 10
E
Equality (political journal), 146
Equality Publishers, 146
Evans, Rose, 177, 188, 189
F
Fall, Albert B., 57
Fascism, 144, 147, 154
Fat Man, The (radio serial), 170, 189
Faulkner, William, 103