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Richard Layman

Author of Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett

23+ Works 298 Members 2 Reviews

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Works by Richard Layman

Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett (1981) 48 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 5) (1986) — Editor — 30 copies

Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade: The Evolution of Dashiell Hammett's Masterpiece, Including John Huston's Movie with Humphrey Bogart (2005) 29 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 7) (1986) — Editor — 26 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 4) (1986) — Editor — 18 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 8) (1987) — Editor — 18 copies

American Decades: 1960-1969 (1994) 18 copies

American Decades: 1950-1959 (1994) 17 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 6) (1986) — Editor — 16 copies

Literary Masters, Vol. 3: Dashiell Hammett (1979) 11 copies, 1 review

Literary Masterpieces, Vol. 3: The Maltese Falcon (2000) 11 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 2) (1985) — Editor — 10 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 3) (1985) — Editor — 10 copies

The New Black Mask Quarterly - Number 1 (1985) 9 copies, 1 review

The New Black Mask Quarterly (Number 1) (1985) — Editor — 9 copies

Dictionary of Literary Biography: Documentary Series (An Illustrated Chronicle) (1982) 4 copies

The Richard Laymon Collection : The Travelling Vampire Show and Dreadful Tales 4 copies

Crime Wave (1987) — Editor — 3 copies

Broadening Views 1968 1988 (Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography) (1989) 2 copies

Current Issues: Child Abuse (1990) 2 copies

The New black mask quarterly 1 copy

Island 1 copy

Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1996 (1997) 1 copy

Associated Works

Return of the Thin Man (2012) — Editor — 321 copies, 23 reviews

The Big Book of the Continental Op (2017) — Editor — 137 copies, 6 reviews

The Hunter and Other Stories (2013) — Editor — 124 copies, 6 reviews

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Early Years, Volume 1 : Arson Plus and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 16 copies, 1 review

Inward journey : Ross Macdonald (1987) — Contributor — 14 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Early Years, Volume 2 : It and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 14 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Middle Years, Volume 1 : The Golden Horseshoe and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 12 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Later Years, Volume 1 : Creeping Siamese and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 12 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Middle Years, Volume 3 : Corkscrew and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 11 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Middle Years, Volume 2 : Who Killed Bob Teal? and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 11 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Later Years, Volume 2 : The Main Death and This King Business (2016) — Editor — 10 copies

Collected Case Files of the Continental Op : The Later Years, Volume 3 : Fly Paper and Other Stories (2016) — Editor — 9 copies

The Necessity of Reference Books in the Digital Age (2008) — Contributor — 2 copies

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SamMelfi 266 reviews

The New Black Mask Quarterly No. 1 by Richard Layman

A better than average group of short stories, by well-known authors embracing both hard-boiled and mystery.

Chica3000 1,144 reviews

Literary Masters: Dashiell Hammett (LITERARY MASTERS SERIES) by Richard Layman

This was a very interesting book.

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Jim Thompson Contributor

Loren D. Estleman Contributor

George V. Higgins Contributor

Edward D. Hoch Contributor

Mark Coggins Contributor

Joseph L. Koenig Contributor

Mike Handley Contributor

David A. Bowman Contributor

Glen Orbik Cover artist

Alexandra Harris Narrator

Statistics

Works: 23
Also by: 13
Members: 298
Popularity: #78,714
Rating: ½ 3.6

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 37
Languages: 1

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