
Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. -

The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
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Monthly Archives: June 2015
Tombstone: Two-Gun Bob
Photo above courtesy the Crider Family Archives, circa 1980. Left to right, at the Robert E. Howard grave in Brownwood, Texas: James Reasoner and Angela, Allen and Bill Crider. The Crider clan lived in Brownwood in that era. If the approximate … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, REH
Tagged Allen Crider, Angela Crider Neary, Bill Crider, James Reasoner, literary graves, literary suicides
Hammett: A Neo-Dash Update
Got a note in from Steve Talbot, who surfed into These Mean Streets after his name was evoked during the little rumination on Naming Kids Dashiell the other day. “I can’t believe I made The Case of Dashiell Hammett 33 years … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, News, Tour
Tagged Dashiell Talbot, Lyle Talbot, More Dashiells, Musso & Frank, Stephen Talbot





