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-- Chris Hammett
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.
Dashiell Hammett managed to slip the word into The Maltese Falcon [Alfred A. Knopf, 1965, p.
-- Charles Kenher ( Tim Carvell , Floyd Elliot , Matthew Heimer , and Chris Hammett had similar answers.)
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.