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    <body><![CDATA[While not a book for those who have never read Hammett, it is fun way to see how Hammett started out and quickly became good.<br/>Early writings with a short biography of what Hammett was doing at the time he wrote the stories.    ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[O.K., the less than favorable review of an american icon is simply because the way they packaged the book.  You feel as if you are getting a bunch of short stories, whereas, you are getting a biography of Hammett with his &quot;lost stories&quot; mixed in.  I have never read a D.H. novel before, but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20897891">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, <em>The Maltese Falcon</em>, and <em>The Thin Man</em>, was one of the 20th century&#8217;s most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett&#8217;s stories&#8212;including some of his best&#8212;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&#8211;winner Joe Gores has written an introduction describing how Hammett influenced literature, movies, television, and Gores&#8217; own life.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting side-notes along with the &quot;lost&quot; stories.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection pulls together a variety of Hammett stories, few of which have ever been anthologized and none recently. Consequently the collection focuses on early, minor work. That’s not to say it’s bad, it is surprising to see what a good craftsman Hammett was right from the start. However, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29715636">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great collection of Hammett ]]></body>
    
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