Dashiell Hammett: A Daughter Remembers.

HAMMETT, JO. LAYMAN, RICHARD WITH JULIE M. RIVETTE

Publication: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2001, New York

First edition. Uncorrected proof. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Hammett's daughter with her earliest recollections of her father, including a trip to the Santa Anita racetrack in a chauffeur-driven limousine, where her father plays more on the horses than he can afford. The notorious Hammett-Hellman romance, Hammett's rude flirtations, his heavy drinking, his attraction to Communism, his time in the Aleutian Islands during World War II, etc. Jo Hammett neither blinks at her father's faults nor diminishes his humanity. Many photographs of interest. Edgar Award nominee for Best Critical/Biographical work of 2001.

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