Into the Alley
Daniel Soar: Dashiell Hammett, 3 January 2002
Nightmare Town: Stories
by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Kirby McCauley and Martin Greenberg et al.
Picador, 396 pp., £16.99, March 2001,0 330 48109 6 Show More
by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Kirby McCauley and Martin Greenberg et al.
Picador, 396 pp., £16.99, March 2001,
Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett 1921-60
edited by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett.
Counterpoint, 650 pp., £28.99, June 2001,1 58243 081 0 Show More
edited by Richard Layman and Julie Rivett.
Counterpoint, 650 pp., £28.99, June 2001,
“... almost anything would do: an island, a plane, a train. G.K. Chesterton’s settings in his Father Brown stories are stranger and simpler: a beheading in a walled garden with no exits, the theft of all the silver of an elite dining club during a meal. He almost removes the need for motive: the perfect criminal commits the perfect crime for its beauty, for the ... ”