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...puzzling case. He got no help from Playwright Lillian Hellman, Hammett's friend and frequent companion during the last 30 years of his life, but this handicap is not crippling. Hammett had done his best work by the time he met Hellman. The crucial years, when he raised pulp writing to the level of art, were already behind...
...fiction filled a gap between the elegant puzzles of the Conan Doyle school and the dumb gore and violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...
...imagination, except for the time a smuggled Monopoly set turns professorial Marxists into board-game landowners, buying play-money hotels with an almost erotic glee. But when a predictable argument about whether Napoleon was a reactionary or a progressive begins in a gray schoolroom, Agee slips a pulp detective novel behind his textbook. The adventures of fearless
...team of Seagram executives, including Bronfman's brother Charles, the chairman of the firm's executive committee, is now screening the business offers the company receives. So far, only corporations in the steel, atomic energy, pulp and paper industries have been declared unsuitable matches. Bronfman suggests he might buy two or three smaller companies based in North America that have foreign operations. This time around, however, he is more likely to try for a friendly takeover than risk a pre-emptive bid of the St. Joe variety. Some Wall Street analysts believe Seagram would be wise...
...knights--soon-to-be father of Arthur--hacks through the earnage and calls out to Merlin "I must be King! I must have that sword! I must have Excalibur!" Merlin cackles "In time, Uther, in time." It's a marvelous seene. It promises L'Mort d'Arthur as grand pulp melodrama, with the perfect mixture of Marvel Comies and subtle satire...