Tag Archives: Casper Gutman

Hammett: More “Gutman’s Daughter”

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Don

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: “What About His Daughter?”

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Don

Birthday 75 for the Golden Gate Bridge. Birthday 118 for Dashiell Hammett. . . . What to do for the birthday this year? How about something Hammettesque I’ve never heard of before? I checked some sources, not a mention — as … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, Tour | Tagged Black Mask, Casper Gutman, Falcon from Knopf, Golden Gate Bridge, Guy Who Had the Unabomber as a Math Teacher, Hammett Tour Book, Rhea Gutman, Sam Spade, Sue Montgomery, Unabomber, Wilmer Cook |

Hammett: Rhea, Wilmer, or. . . ?

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Don

Mike Humbert refreshes his name in my Tag Cloud by sending in a link to a bit about The Maltese Falcon he’s found hanging out in the web — as he notes, it is an “Off-the-wall theory, but interesting. . . .” The … Continue reading →