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HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Typed letter signed ("Dashiell Hammett") to Mr. Bierstadt. New York, 10 January 1924. One page, 4to, on Lombardy Hotel stationary, vertical crease (crossing signature), otherwise fine. With one holograph correction.
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HAMMETT, DASHIELL. Typed letter signed ("Dashiell Hammett") to Mr. Bierstadt. New York, 10 January 1924. One page, 4to, on Lombardy Hotel stationary, vertical crease (crossing signature), otherwise fine. With one holograph correction.
Hammett defends himself to a reader. "It's readers like you who keep us from lazily guessing at all our facts. My defense--naturally I would have one--is that at the time Guild says 'lime or something' he has had only a brief and inexpert report by phone from the copper who found the body..."
Hammett defends himself to a reader. "It's readers like you who keep us from lazily guessing at all our facts. My defense--naturally I would have one--is that at the time Guild says 'lime or something' he has had only a brief and inexpert report by phone from the copper who found the body..."