Typed Letter Signed ("Joe") to Matthew Bruccoli

Price: $100.00

Unbound. Quarto leaf. Dated 9 December 1975 on Gores' stationery. Fine. Gores sends a Dashiell Hammett *City Mag* issue to Bruccoli, reacts favorably to the idea of writing an article for a journal that Bruccoli is publishing, and discusses at some length his book *Hammett*: "As for how its selling, I didn't really expect a best-seller. It has gone into a second printing, which makes it the bestselling book I ever wrote...And it has sold to Coppola for the movie version with me to do the script. So the book has been good to me." Coppola's Zoetrope Studios released the film, directed by Wim Wenders and starring Frederic Forrest as Hammett, in 1982, after many production problems including a change in the ending allegedly because the novel's ending was deemed too close to Hammett's own writings.

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Item #76448 Typed Letter Signed ("Joe") to Matthew Bruccoli. Joe GORES.

Joe Gores
birth name: Joseph Nicholas Gores
born: 12/25/1931
died: 01/10/2011

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Edgar Award-winning mystery author who prose was likened to Dashiell Hammett's and whose series about the Daniel Kearney Associates detective agency created, in the words of Lawrence Block, a new genre: the "detective-agency procedural."more