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The hunter and other stories
- Title
- The hunter and other stories / Dashiell Hammett ; edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett.
- Author
- Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961
- Publication
- New York, NY : The Mysterious Press, [2013]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-1591 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- vi, 291 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- An anthology of eighteen short stories includes a number of previously unpublished pieces as well as early screen treatments for "On the Make" and "The Kiss-Off."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Short stories.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Crime. Commentary -- The hunter (unpublished) -- The sign of the potent pills (unpublished) -- The diamond wager (1929, uncollected) -- Action and the Quiz Kid (unpublished) -- Men. Commentary -- Fragments of justice (unpublished) -- A throne for the worm (unpublished) -- Magic (unpublished) -- Faith (2007) -- An inch and a half of glory (unpublished) -- Nelson Redline (unpublished) -- Monk and Johnny Fox (unpublished) -- The cure (2011, uncollected) -- Men and women. Commentary -- Seven pages (2005) -- The breech-born (unpublished) -- The lovely strangers (unpublished) -- Week--end (unpublished) -- On the way (1932, uncollected) -- Screen stories. Commentary -- The kiss-off (unpublished, story for City Streets, Paramount 1931) -- Devil's playground (unpublished and unproduced) -- On the make (unpublished, story for Mr.Dynamite, Universal, 1935) -- Appendix: The lost Spade. Commentary -- A knife will cut for anybody (unpublished) -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-1591
- ISBN
- 0802121586
- 9780802121585
- 9780802121592 (pbk.)
- 0802121594 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 837956363
- Author
- Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961, author.
- Title
- The hunter and other stories / Dashiell Hammett ; edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : The Mysterious Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Rivett, Julie M, editor.Layman, Richard, 1947- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-1591