Continental Op: Early Years 01 Arson Plus and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett

Author:Dashiell Hammett [Hammett, Dashiell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2016-04-05T16:20:31+00:00

Black Mask, 1 October 1923

From the Author of “Arson Plus”

I’m glad you liked “Arson Plus”—it cost me gallons of sweat and acres of chewed finger nails! It went along nicely until I tried to bring it to an end—then it was hell-bent on running two or three thousand words further; but I finally fought it into reasonable length.

This detective of mine: I didn’t deliberately keep him nameless, but he got through “Slippery Fingers” and “Arson Plus” without needing one, so I suppose I may as well let him run along that way. I’m not sure that he’s entitled to a name, anyhow. He’s more or less of a type: the private detective who oftenest is successful: neither the derby-hatted and broad-toed blockhead of one school of fiction, nor the all-knowing, infallible genius of another. I’ve worked with several of him.

Apropos of Charles Somerville’s excellent article on capital punishment in the June 15th issue: under a law passed about two years ago, Nevada uses lethal gas for executions. The condemned man is placed in the lethal chamber during the week set by the court for his death. The gas is turned on while the condemned is asleep, the warden selecting the night of the week

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