Great title, great story, great collection...hard to believe I found this copy for a buck at a yard sale. It pays to be a smart shopper.
It had a couple of Hammett short stories I hadn't seen collected before (as did an odd hardback collection of Sam Spade stories I found somewhere else in bargainland), and finding anything by Hammett you haven't read before is always something of a holy grail.
that and also a lucky shopper. i have the complete james bond 1st ed in paperback. took me years, and yrs ago i lost 'the spy who loved me', just to find one in auburn cali not long ago . . . hahahaha (but now all my pulp is in an advanced state of entropy).
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One of the greatest short story titles ever, and this was a crackerjack cover.
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Great title, great story, great collection...hard to believe I found this copy for a buck at a yard sale. It pays to be a smart shopper.
It had a couple of Hammett short stories I hadn't seen collected before (as did an odd hardback collection of Sam Spade stories I found somewhere else in bargainland), and finding anything by Hammett you haven't read before is always something of a holy grail.
that and also a lucky shopper. i have the complete james bond 1st ed in paperback. took me years, and yrs ago i lost 'the spy who loved me', just to find one in auburn cali not long ago . . . hahahaha
(but now all my pulp is in an advanced state of entropy).
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