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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.
The latest and greatest edition to self-guide you up and down the mean streets.
Willeford: The Book
Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.”
Tag Archives: Clan Breiding
Rediscovered: The Bill Breiding Omnibus
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
Posted in Frisco, Lit, News, SFSC
Tagged Bill Breiding, Burning Man, Cacophony Society, Clan Breiding, Fritz Leiber, G. Sutton Breiding, Gary Warne
Suicide Club: Locked Room Poet
I’d fact-check before I put it in a book, but memory tells me that Gary Warne ended up in San Francisco because his pals from West Virginia, the Breiding clan, came here first. Within a few years Gary launched The … Continue reading
News: November 2009
TOUR SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 In addition to various tours by appointment this month, Don is offering a Hammett walk open to anyone interested — Sunday November 15 at noon, ten bucks, four hours, the usual, just like it says on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco, News, Tour
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Clan Breiding, Craig Clevenger, Donnie Fritz, Eddie Muller, Frank Synopsis, Noir City, Robert Mailer Anderson, Specious Species
News: October 2007
TOURS BY APPOINTMENT Looks like October is going to be nothing but tours by appointment, including the sold-out walk Don is leading for the Pleasanton Library “Big Read” project covering that enduring novel The Maltese Falcon. With rain already sweeping … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Ace Atkins, Big Read, Charles K. Wolfe, Clan Breiding, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, pure texts, Sean McCourt