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I thank Don Herron of Glen Ellen, California, the author of The Dashiell Hammett Tour , City Lights Press, for finding these citations.
--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.
-- Chris Hammett
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.