Lost Stories (The Ace Performer Collection series) - Hardcover

Hammett, Dashiell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0972589813 ISBN 13: 9780972589819

Publisher: Vince Emery Productions, 2005

Synopsis

Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century’s most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett’s stories—including some of his best—have been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors, until now. This essential compendium rescues 21 long-lost Hammett stories, all either never collected in an anthology or unavailable for decades. These stories appear nowhere else, and represent a variety of styles from the famous mysterysmith: his first detective fiction, humorous satires, adventure yarns, a sensitive autobiographical piece, and a Thin Man story told with photos. In addition, all stories have been restored to their original versions, replacing often wholesale cuttings with the original text for the first time. To round out this celebration of Hammett, three-time Edgar Award–winner Joe Gores has written an introduction describing how Hammett influenced literature, movies, television, and Gores’ own life.

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A Featured Alternate Selection of the Mystery Guild book club

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Dashiell Hammett, the bestselling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the America’s most entertaining authors, and one of its most influential. Even so, many of Hammett’s stories—including some of his best—have been out of the reach of anyone but a handful of scholars and collectors—until now.

Lost Stories rescues 21 long-lost Hammett stories, all either never published in an anthology or unavailable for decades. Stories range from the first fiction Hammett ever wrote to his last. All stories have been restored to their original versions, replacing often-wholesale cuts with the original text for the first time.

Readers of Hammett's famous mysteries will be surprised by the variety of stories here. They include Hammett's first detective fiction, humorous satires, adventure yarns, a sensitive autobiographical piece, and a tale Ellery Queen promises "is one of the most startling stories you have ever read."

For each story, Hammett researcher Vince Emery tells how Hammett’s life shaped the story and how the story affected his life. Emery’s comments reveal surprises about Hammett’s life not covered in any other book.

To round out this celebration of Hammett, three-time Edgar Award winner Joe Gores has written an introduction describing how Hammett influenced literature, movies, television, and Gores’ own life.

Lost Stories is the first title in The Ace Performer Collection, a new series of books by and about Dashiell Hammett, crowned "the ace performer" by his disciple Raymond Chandler.

Dashiell Hammett was one of the world's most popular and influential writers. Widely known as the best-selling creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, Hammett was also a Pinkerton's detective, an advertising man, a soldier in the U.S. Army during both World Wars, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, a political activist, and a short story writer.

Joe Gores worked as a logger, a carnival roustabout, a teacher at a boys' school in Kenya, and for twelve years, a detective. Gores' popular novels and stories about Daniel Kearney Associates are based on his own experiences as a San Francisco private eye. As a writer of novels, short stories, and screnplays, Gores won three Edgar Awards and was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He has written scripts for Kojak, Columbo, Magnum P.I., Mike Hammer, Remington Steele, and other television series. Francis Ford Coppola produced a movie based on Gores' novel Hammett.

Vince Emery wrote the bestseller How to Grow Your Business on the Internet and started publishing company Peer-to-Peer Communications. He has contributed research and articles to several books about Dashiell Hammett.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vince Emery Productions
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0972589813
• ISBN 13: 9780972589819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Emery Vince