Red harvest. (Book Talk).(Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960)

The American Enterprise | September 1, 2002| | Copyright

Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett: 1921-1960 Edited by Richard Layman and Julie M. Rivett Counterpoint Press, 650 pages, $25

In March of 1947, Dashiell Hammett, author of such classics of mystery fiction as The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, wrote to his daughter, describing how his life had been consumed with political activism. He would start on a play or novel and inevitably get distracted because of his commitment to, as he wrote, the "Jews, Negroes, trade unionists, Communists, pseudo-Communists, suspected Communists, imaginary Communists, and god knows who ...

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