Lost stories
Subtitle: 21 long-lost stories from the best-selling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man
By: Dashiell Hammett ; edited by Vince Emery ; introduction by Joe Gores.
Contributors: Emery, Vince.
Publisher: Vince Emery Productions; Distributed by Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Francisco; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American; Short stories
Work titles: Selections.
Description: Lost Stories rescues 21 long-unavailable Dashiell Hammett stories from the first fiction he wrote to the last, each with an explanation of how the author's life shaped his story and how the story fits in his life.
Table of contents: title: Rough start --; title: Barber and his wife --; title: Parthian shot --; title: Great lovers --; title: Immortality --; title: Road home --; title: Master mind --; title: Sardonic star of Tom Doody --; title: Joke on Eloise Morey --; title: Holiday --; title: Crusader --; title: Green elephant --; title: Dimple --; title: Laughing masks --; title: Itchy --; title: Esther entertains --; title: Another perfect crime --; title: Ber-Bulu --; title: Advertising man writes a love letter --; title: Rich and famous --; title: Night shade --; title: This little pig --; title: Thin man and the flack --; title: Long sunset.