Category Archives: Lit

Hammett: The Op’s Brainwork Recognised

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Don

From Scotland, Steven Meikle lets us know that the Op made the cut in a roster of deductive sleuths, inspired by the new Sherlock Holmes film from Guy Ritchie — second on the list, from The Observer. Yeah, he was … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit | Tagged Guy Ritchie, Philip Marlowe, Sherlock Holmes, Steven Meikle |

Hammett: More Newsprint

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Don

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 →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | 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 |

Two-Gun Bob: A Living Legend

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Don

Today they’re tossing a party for Glenn Lord in Texas, to celebrate the father of Robert E. Howard fandom hitting his 80 year milestone on the 17th. Yeah, I kind of wish I was there — I’ve always liked Glenn, who … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged "Conan vs. Conantics", Dennis McHaney, Glenn Lord, Howard Days, pure texts, Rusty Burke, The Dark Barbarian, The Howard Collector |

Hammett: Another Newspaper Serialization

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Don

Okay. This is getting ridiculous. John D. Squires has come across yet another newspaper serialization of a Continental Op story, this time from 1947. You may recall he recently uncovered a 1956 newspaper run for Hammett’s “The Tenth Clew,” prompting … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged "Dead Yellow Women", "The Tenth Clew", John D. Squires, newspaper action, Richard Layman, Senator Joseph McCarthy |

Rediscovered: Tad Dorgan

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Don

The other day I mentioned how I casually had looked Tad Dorgan up online and noticed his connection with boxing — “a hard-boiled cartoonist, no less,” wrote I. Hey, little did I know. A day or two later Terry Zobeck … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, REH | Tagged Battling Nelson, Boxing, Brian Leno, Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, Jim Corbett, Jim Jeffries, Joe Frazier, Nat Fleischer, Ring Lardner, Tad Dorgan, Terry Zobeck, The Ring |

Two-Gun Bob: Thundering Hoof Beats

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Don

In the review I did this past summer for issue 15 of Two-Gun Raconteur, I mentioned the moment late in 2005 when a couple of new critical anthologies on Robert E. Howard were being prepped for publication in 2006, his centennial year. One … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Conan Meets the Academy, Dierdre Pettipiece, Justin Everett, Leo Grin, Michael Moorcock, More than Human, Paul Shovlin, Philip K. Dick, Richard Slotkin, Steve Trout, The Barbaric Triumph, The Dark Barbarian |

Posse McMillan: A Hammett Shout-Out from Pelecanos

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Don

Our frequent Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck is back, making sure you don’t miss out on a Hammett plug in the new novel by George Pelecanos. Last time I saw George, we were in Philly, he’d snuck in on the edges … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, DMac, Film, Lit, News | Tagged Elmore Leonard, first editions, George Pelecanos, Noir Con, Richard Stark, Terry Zobeck |

Rediscovered: The Hammett Tour Books!

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Don

Jeez. You hang around long enough, cycles pass, and if you’re lucky your once new stuff is ready for rediscovery. Anyway, that’s my thinking after Evan Lewis selected my series of Hammett tour books for a Forgotten Books Friday post. … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Frisco, Lit, Willeford | Tagged Bette Davis, Book Collecting, Evan Lewis, first editions, Steve Eng |

Two-Gun Bob: “The Bright Barbarian”

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Don

And what better way to celebrate Halloween and close out October, than with something kind of creepy. . . . It probably won’t amount to much, but I’ve noticed a possible new trend in the way some people want Robert E. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lit, REH | Tagged "Conan vs. Conantics", "The Bright Barbarian", Al Harron, Jason Momoa, Justin Bieber, L. Sprague de Camp, Leo Grin, Lin Carter, Professor Frank Coffman, The Cimmerian, The Dark Barbarian |

Hammett: More Tad’s Blind Man

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Don

Once he’s on the trail, Terry Zobeck sticks like a bloodhound — and the Tad’s blind man bit from the Op story “It” has caught his attention. He put out a general inquiry on the Fiction Mags list, and credits fellow FictionMagateer … Continue reading →