Pynchon mention

[MalignD at aol.com]

In the NY Review of Books, 2/14/02

Margaret Atwood, in a review of three books by or about Dashiell Hammett 
writes, referring to Hammett's influence: 

"...  Even the pratfalling body pile-ups were inherited by an unlikely third 
cousin:  read Hammett's 'Dead Yellow Women' or 'The Big Knockover,' then the 
riot-in-the-bar sequence in the first chapter of Thomas Pynchon's V, just for 
fun."