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You mention [XVII,3] the word gunsel as being a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman,' etc.
Further to the letter of Muriel Smith [XVIII, 2] regarding gunsel , perhaps her taste and discretion prevent her from quoting Queen more directly.
When the book was coming out in Black Mask , in 1929, the editor presumably took gunsel to be a synonym of gunman , and in that sense it was very widely adopted by Hammett's imitators, by the general public, and even, it seems, by the underworld.
If Yiddish is the source of gunsel, someone will have to produce an etymon that is phonologically more likely than gendzl or, if that is indeed its etymon, explain the irregular sound change.
Hammett had a taste for trying to slip censorable words past cautious editors, and he succeeded with gunsel , which sounds innocent enough to anyone who never heard it before.