SOURCE: "Dashiell Hammett and the Poetics of Hard-Boiled Detection," in Art in Crime Writing: Essays on Detective Fiction, edited by Bernard Benstock, St. Martin's, 1983, pp. 49-72.
Hammett Responding to the Rejection of Two Continental Op Stories by Black Mask:
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