
Welcome to a hard-boiled and not without noir blog with news and reviews, occasional outbursts of maniacal Autograph Hound activity, plus archival records from the forty-five year run of The Dashiell Hammett Tour. -

The Dashiell Hammett Tour
1977-2022



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Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973-

Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024-

Willeford
The Book-
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Tag Archives: Clark Evans
Hammett: “Night Shots”
Terry Zobeck is back with another set of pure text corrections for a Continental Op story you thought you knew inside out — but if you’ve been relying on the reprint version used in books for the last sixty-six years … Continue reading
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Tagged "Night Shots", Black Mask, Clark Evans, EQMM, Frederic Dannay, Library of Congress, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One
Hammett: “Afraid of a Gun”
Just got back from a run down to Musso & Frank to find that Terry Zobeck logged in with another installment of his series investigating the editorial changes made by Frederic Dannay to Hammett’s short stories — and what better … Continue reading
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Tagged "Afraid of a Gun", Black Mask, Clark Evans, Frederic Dannay, Library of Congress, Musso & Frank, Terry Zobeck, Zobeck Series One
Hammett: “The Vicious Circle”
Fresh off his dive into the archives in the Library of Congress, Terry Zobeck is back with a new set of pure text corrections for one of Hammett’s earliest stories — he apologises for the cover image of the issue … Continue reading





