His first novel, originally entitled Poisonville, began appearing in 1927, and the next year he finished his novel The Dain Curse.
This man wrote about the death of Dr. Estep in his story "Zigzags of Treachery," while the protagonist is forced to attend a wedding on an island in San Pablo Bay after Dick Foley is incapacitated in his story "The Gutting of Couffignal." His first published story, "The Parthian Shot," appeared in The Smart Set, while some of his other stories were published under the pen name Peter Collinson. His first novel, originally entitled Poisonville, began appearing in 1927, and the next year he finished his novel The Dain Curse. Those books appeared serially in Black Mask, as did The Glass Key and a number of his stories about the Continental Op. FTP, name this author of The Thin Man and The Maltese Falcon.
This man wrote about the death of Dr. Estep in his story "Zigzags of Treachery," while the protagonist is forced to attend a wedding on an island in San Pablo Bay after Dick Foley is incapacitated in his story "The Gutting of Couffignal."
Dashiell {Hammett}