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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
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Willeford: The Book
Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.”
Tag Archives: Crime Stories
Hammett: Birthday 126
Yeah, 126 years ago today Samuel Dashiell Hammett began life as a fat baby, and lived that life as a thin man. Pinkerton’s detective. Pulp writer in San Francisco. Hollywood. Ended up in New York. You probably know the outline. … Continue reading →
Hammett: “Slippery Fingers”
Guess who’s back with another installment of Zobeck: Series Two? You got it. And here’s Terry Zobeck: The other day, Don sent me a link to a piece by Francis M. Nevins on the Mystery File blog that mentions … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Peter Collinson", "Slippery Fingers", Black Mask, Crime Stories, Library of America, Steve Carper, Terry Zobeck, The Digest Enthusiast, Zobeck Series Two
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Hammett: A Tiny Tweak for “This King Biz”
Just when you think you’ve got something wrapped-up. . . . Earlier this month Terry Zobeck and I wrote Fin/30/Fade-to-Black on Zobeck: Series One, the investigation into “pure texts” on the 21 Hammett short stories yet to be reprinted using … Continue reading →
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Tagged "This King Business", Crime Stories, Michael Stoler, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Great War, Zobeck Series One
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Hammett: “The Gatewood Thing” Caper
Today is the 54th anniversary of the death of Dashiell Hammett — and starts us toward the five year marker for this blog (although the website itself kicked off in late 2000 — hey, a fifteen year anniversary!). As a mini-memorial, how about a … Continue reading →
Hammett: “The Barber and His Wife”
How about we kick off the month with The Return of Tenderloin Terry Zobeck? It’s always swell when Terry climbs back on deck after a hiatus. Terry’s still got one Hammett story he needs to check for editorial meddling by … Continue reading →
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Tagged "The Barber and His Wife", A Man Named Thin, Brief Stories, Crime Stories, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Galactic Central, Lost Stories, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, Vince Emery, Zobeck Series Two
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Hammett: “Corkscrew”
Thanksgiving — the day of bounty, and plenty of it. I wonder, do we have any bounty to strew Up and Down These Mean Streets? How about The Return of Terry Zobeck? — who in a race to the finish with his coverage … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Corkscrew", "This King Business", Black Mask, Crime Stories, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Library of America, Lillian Hellman, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One
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Hammett: The Complete Op
Say what you will about Frederic Dannay — and we’ve said so much about him on this site that his name is threatening to take over the Tag Cloud — but at least in his ten collections of Hammett’s shorter fiction … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Corkscrew", "Death and Company", "It", "One Hour", "This King Business", "Three Dimes", "Who Killed Bob Teal?", Crime Stories, Dell Mapbacks, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Library of America, pure texts, Terry Zobeck
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Hammett: “You’ve Never Read Hammett!”
A few years ago I was in the now gone “M” Is For Mystery Bookstore for a talk. Near the end of the remarks the speaker — kind of an absurd little guy — suddenly remembered that the collection Crime Stories … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Death and Company", "This King Business", Black Mask, Book Collecting, Crime Stories, Falcon from Knopf, Frederic Dannay, Library of America, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover
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Hammett: The Guest Blogger “Business”
If you remember the spectacular debut of Terry Zobeck on the Guest Blogging scene here last year — only the tip of the iceberg — you won’t be surprised to see that he has surfed over to the Library of America for a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, Lawrence Block, Library of America, Raymond Chandler, Terry Zobeck
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Hammett: More Newsprint
When I checked my copy of Richard Layman’s Dashiell Hammett: A Descriptive Bibliography the other day for information on newspaper reprints, I noticed that he cites a serial run for The Thin Man in the San Francisco Examiner during March and April 1934. … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Dead Yellow Women", "The Thin Man", Australian Women's Weekly, Black Mask, Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, John D. Squires, Louis Tracy, M. P. Shiel, newspaper action, Ottawa Citizen, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck
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