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Dashiell Hammett managed to slip the word into The Maltese Falcon [Alfred A. Knopf, 1965, p.
-- Chris Hammett
Ellery Queen, in In the Queen's Parlour (1957), has a note on Dashiell Hammett's use of the word.
I thank Don Herron of Glen Ellen, California, the author of The Dashiell Hammett Tour , City Lights Press, for finding these citations.
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.