Category Archives: News

Rediscovered: Floyd Salas Interviewed

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Don

Shot above, Floyd Salas, foreground, and Donald Sidney-Fryer from their first meeting. Matthew Asprey Gear just popped in word that a newly published interview with Floyd (conducted via email in 2014) is now available in Girl Gangs, Biker Boys, and … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Floyd Salas Meets Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Don

Left: Floyd Salas. Right: Donald Sidney-Fryer. (Background: gold statue by Floyd titled “The Boxer.”) I’ve had the idea that Floyd Salas and Donald Sidney-Fryer, “a pair of similar opposites” (to use a term Leo Grin came up with) really ought … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Prepare Yourself for the Complete Op, In Time for Xmas

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Don

In case you haven’t noticed, Vintage Crime announces publication of The Big Book of the Continental Op — just in time for Xmas. I have to check the proof to make sure it is up to my standards, but the … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Popping into Stookey’s

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Don

A Sunday or three back I was in Frisco, just hanging out, and stopped into Stookey’s for a pop. I needed a Corpse Reviver No. 2 to keep the old corpse going, and they’ll always shake one up for me, even … Continue reading →

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Hammett: High Ticket

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Don

I don’t keep close track, but I am well aware prices on first editions of Hammett’s novels have jumped into the big money — kicked off by the legendary 1981 auction of the Adrian Goldstone crime fiction collection here in … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Back to the Tenderloin Museum

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Don

I’ll be hitting the Tenderloin Museum once again on July 13 — hey, just three days before their second anniversary on July 16 — to talk Dashiell Hammett for awhile. Hammett, pretty much the most famous writer to have made … Continue reading →

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Hollywood Beat: When Chandler Was Home

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Don

Brian Wallace popped me the news that Raymond Chandler’s home in La Jolla — given how often he moved around, kind of his main lair — is up for serious renovation and the addition of a second story. If that … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Bruce Townley’s Oblong

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Don

To clarify the title, I’m not saying that Bruce Townley is oblong, I’m talking about Bruce’s zine Oblong. If interested, you can surf over to a file of PDF issues and amuse yourself with the content until you’ve had enough, … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Lon Chaney’s The Penalty

Posted on June 4, 2017 by Don

When I met the mysterious CitySleuth he mentioned that he was working on finding San Francisco location shooting for the Lon Chaney flick The Penalty from 1920 — one of my favorites, with Chaney in one of his greatest roles as the legless … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: The Bill Breiding Omnibus

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Don

Pretty much the last thing I might have expected to roll in would have been an omnibus — under the banner of Rose Motel — of Bill Breiding’s “Fanzine Pieces 1980-2014.” Years pass and I don’t hear from Bill, then Bingo. … Continue reading →

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