The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Joe Gores died Monday.
Like Dashiell Hammett, he was a private detective before he became a mystery writer. I suppose he was most famous for his book
Hammett in which he imagined Dashiell Hammett to solve a case, and most recently
Spade & Archer, a prequel to
The Maltese Falcon.
I am currently reading a collection of Hammett short stories called
Lost Stories. Gores wrote the introduction to it.
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