Tag Archives: Black Mask

Rediscovered: Race Williams Lamps a Flivver

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Don

How about another volley in my Great Flivver War of 2015 against the dummy dumb dumbos in Robert E. Howard fandom who don’t know that a flivver is a Ford (and usually a Model T Ford)? As I told them, I have many … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, REH | Tagged Ack/Wanks, Black Mask, Carroll John Daly, Comic Book Dinks, flivvers, Race Williams |

Hammett: A Wandering Sentences Job

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Don

It was another case for Race Zobeck, Confidential Pure Text Dick. The email came winging in lazily over the transom. The client’s moniker 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, Zobeck Series One |

Rediscovered: Race Williams Roscoes Again!

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Don

One thing among others I can be thankful for is that a book can still knock me out purely as a physical item. Not every book that comes through my hands. Not all the time — not nearly enough of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Alan Ladd, Altus Press, Black Mask, Carroll John Daly, Jersey Noir, Race Williams, This Gun for Hire |

Hammett: That White-Hot Burst in 1925

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Don

Image at top: holding down a table at the Mechanics’ Library talk while Nathan Ward merrily signs a copy of his new bio of Hammett. Image at bottom: before we start the proceedings (clew: my wine glass is loaded) we gear … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, REH | Tagged "Dead Yellow Women", Black Mask, Conan, David Fechheimer, Mechanics' Library, Nathan Ward, Pulps |

Hammett: Reviewer Remorse

Posted on September 11, 2015 by Don

Now Terry Zobeck is worried that his review of the new Hammett bio by Nathan Ward — because of a few quibbles he throws in — might not have given a fair account of how much he liked it: I hope … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Frisco, Tour | Tagged 891 Post, Ace Atkins, Art Taylor, Bill Arney, Black Mask, Bogie, David Fechheimer, Jose Hammett, Nathan Ward, Red Harvest, Terry Zobeck, Washington Post |

Rediscovered: PulpFest 2015 — On the Whole, I’d Rather Not Be in Philadelphia

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Don

Got to the airport predawn on Thursday August 13, plenty of time to fly to Phoenix, catch the connecting flight to Columbus, Ohio, so I’d hit this year’s PulpFest by 4p.m., before they even cracked open the doors of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News, SFSC, Willeford | Tagged August Derleth, Autographs, Avram Davidson, Bill Lampkin, Bill Mann, Bill Thinnes, Black Mask, Bob Byrne, Brian Earl Brown, Chet Williamson, Chuck Miller, Fritz Leiber, George Vanderburgh, German Village, Jim Barron, John D. Haefele, John DeWalt, John Gunnison, literary homes, Lovecraft, Mike Chomko, Morgan Holmes, Noir Con, Paul Herman, Philadelphia, Poe, PulpFest, Rah Hoffman, Ron Hilger, Schmidt's Sausage Haus, Scott Connors, Scott Hartshorn, Solar Pons, Steve Eng, Terry Zobeck, The Pulpster, Tom Krabacher, Underwood-Miller, Walker Martin, Warren Harris, Will Murray, William Lampkin, William Maynard, Wilson Warneld |

Hammett: “The Nails in Mr. Cayterer”

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Don

Remember the fireworks going off boom! and bang! a couple of days ago? As I watched the explosions I was thinking, yeah, if they only knew that Terry Zobeck was about to finish off — complete, fini — his now … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "The Nails in Mr Cayterer", Black Mask, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Jo Hammett, Library of America, Nero Wolfe, pure texts, Rex Stout, Richard Layman, Robin Thin, Terry Zobeck, Vince Emery, Zobeck Series One |

Rediscovered: Going Op Crazy

Posted on March 27, 2015 by Don

If you want to see a bunch of covers from issues of Black Mask where Op yarns appeared, plus covers from various editions of Op books foreign and domestic, Old School and more recent, then surf over to Evan Lewis’s blog … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged "Death and Company", "The Farewell Murder", Black Mask, EQMM, Evan Lewis |

Hammett: “The Gatewood Thing” Caper

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Don

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 →

Posted in Dash | Tagged "Crooked Souls", "Death and Company", "The Gatewood Caper", "The Gatewood Thing", Black Mask, Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Lillian Hellman, Pulps, pure texts, PW, Terry Zobeck, The Big Knockover |

Hammett: Red Harvest Begat the Three Stooges?

Posted on April 24, 2014 by Don

You never know what you’re going to find drinking joe/surfing around the net/trying to wake up. Today I came across a brief review of Hammett’s Red Harvest by Ron Scheer, who usually blogs about Old West stuff — worth checking … Continue reading →