Day: February 22, 2016

Hammett’s first published story

“The Parthian Shot” When the boy was six months old Paulette Key acknowledged that her hopes and efforts had been futile, that the baby was indubitably and irredeemably a replica of its father. She could have endured the physical resemblance, but the duplication of Harold Key’s stupid obstinacy–unmistakable in the fixity of the child’s inarticulate…

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