The Critical Response to Dashiell Hammett (Hardcover)

Series Foreword by Cameron Northouse Introduction Chronology Red Harvest Reviews (1929) From The Journals of Andre Gide by Andre Gide (1941) From The Pursuit of Crime by Dennis Porter (1981) From Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (1981) From Hammett: A Life at the Edge by William F. Nolan (1983) From "Radical Anger: Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest" by Christopher Bentley (1988) From Adventure, Mystery, and Romance by John G. Cawelti (1976) Forms of Labor in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest by Carl Freedman and Christopher Kendrick (1991) The Dain Curse Reviews (1929) From Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook by William F. Nolan (1969) From California Writers by Stoddard Martin (1983) From "The Hardboiled Dicks" by Donald Westlake (1984) The Dain Curse: The Epistemology of the Detective Story by Sinda Gregory (1985) "A Long and Laughable Story": Hammett's The Dain Curse and the Postmodern Condition by Bruce Gatenby (1994) The Maltese Falcon Reviews (1930) From the Introduction to The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1934) From "Why Do People Read Detective Stories?" by Edmund Wilson (1944) From Heroes and Highbrows and the Popular Mind by Leo Gurko (1953) From "The Maltese Falcon: The Emergency of the Hero" by George J. Thompson (1973) From Saint With a Gun by William Ruehlman (1974) From Dashiell Hammett by Julian Symons (1985) Focus on The Maltese Falcon: The Metaphysical Falcon by Irving Malin (1968) Jameson, Genre, and Gumshoes: The Maltese Falcon as Inverted Romance by Jasmine Yong Hall (1990) Dashiell Hammett and the Challenge of New Individualism: Rereading Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon by Christopher Metress (1990) The Glass Key Reviews (1931) From "Oh, Look--Two Good Books!" by Dorothy Parker (1931) A Letter to the Editor of Writer's Digest by Joseph T. Shaw (1931) On The Glass Key by Rex Stout (1970) From Mortal Consequences by Julian Symons (1973) On The Glass Key by James M. Cain (1976) From The New Wild West: The Urban Mysteries of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler by Paul Skenazy (1982) From "Setting the Record Straight on Dashiell Hammett: A Life by William F. Nolan (1984) The Riddle of the Key by Will Murray (1989) Dashiell Hammett's Hardboiled Modernism by Jon Thompson (1993) The Thin Man Reviews (1934) From an advertisement, The New York Times Alfred Knopf (1934) From Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Richard Layman (1979) From Private Investigations: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett by Sinda Gregory (1985) The Thin Man: The End Game by George J. Thompson (1974) From Beams Falling: The Art of Dashiell Hammett's Novels by Peter Wolfe (1980) General Studies From Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story by Howard Haycraft (1941) From "The Simple Art of Murder" by Raymond Chandler (1944) Dashiell Hammett's Private Eye: No Loyalty Beyond the Job by David T. Bazelon (1949) The Thin Man by A. Alvarez (1966) The Poetics of the Private Eye: The Novels of Dashiell Hammett by Robert I. Edenbaum (1968) Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op by Steven Marcus (1974) Homage to Dashiell Hammett by Ross Macdonald (1981) Finding out about Gender in Hammett's Detective Fiction: Generic Constraints or Transcendental Norms? by David J. Herman (1991) Dangerous Romance as Prelude to Love: Hammett's Woman in the Dark by Larry Anderson (1994) Additional Readings Index