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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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The latest and greatest edition to self-guide you up and down the mean streets.
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Plugged by Tom Nolan in The Wall St. Journal.
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Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.”
Tag Archives: Marc LaViolette
Hammett: More Reviews from a “Careful Reading, Deep Thinking Advertising Man”
Terry Zobeck has raided the Library of Congress again, and found that they now have color copiers — but that copies of Western Advertising are a bit larger than their scanner bed, and that his scanner program just doesn’t do … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, News
Tagged Duncan Sisters, KGO, Library of Congress, Marc LaViolette, Nathan Ward, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, Western Advertising
Hammett: More “Gutman’s Daughter”
You may remember Marc LaViolette from the caper where he noticed something wrong in the Hammett collection Nightmare Town, and rang up Terry “Race” Zobeck, Pure Text Dick, to get to the bottom of it. Mystery solved. Case closed. The usual. … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News
Tagged Casper Gutman, Marc LaViolette, Race Zobeck, Rhea Gutman, Sue Montgomery, Wilmer Cook
Hammett: A Wandering Sentences Job
It was another case for Race Zobeck, Confidential Pure Text Dick. The email came winging in lazily over the transom. The client’s monicker was LaViolette. Marc LaViolette. At least that’s what he claimed. . . . He’d gotten bit by the … Continue reading
Posted in Dash
Tagged "Bodies Piled Up", "The Man Who Killed Dan Odams", Black Mask, Frederic Dannay, Marc LaViolette, pure texts, Race Zobeck, Terry Zobeck