Friday, February 4, 2011

#EntertainmentNews: Decades old stories of Dashiell Hammett get surprise publishing


A very old write and an unpublished one by Dashiell Hammett, is a story which has now been decided to be published even after decades of his death. This story is only small 19-page story titled as "So I Shot Him
This suspenseful story was actually written in the old days with the typical short-style of Hammett, which made famous in his times like "The Maltese Falcon" and almost all of his other work. This book is now decided to be published in this winter/spring issue of Strand Magazine, as reported by the managing editor of the magazine, Andrew F. Gulli, who stated the news this Thursday whereas the issue is scheduled to reach the stores sometime around Feb. 28th.

Gulli did not only discover this one undated story but he claims to have stumbled up 14 others such by Hammett himself, he stated that he had discovered all these by searching the archives at the University of Texas in Austin. Another magazine, The Strand, which is published at a quarterly basis in Birmingham, Mich. Has also recognized the work of this time and published the writes of some other little known writers Graham Greene, Mark Twain and Agatha Christie. Hammett passed away at the age of 66 in 1961.

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