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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.
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Willeford: The Book
Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.”
Tag Archives: Clues
Sinister Cinema: A Fistful of Fisher
Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. And does our resident pulp/film buff John Locke have a title for you today: I Wake Up Screaming. Yeah, we all get that feeling, right? — now maybe more so than ever. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Black Mask, Clues, Detective Fiction Weekly, Halloween, I Wake Up Screaming, John Locke, Laird Cregar, Liberty, Pulps in the Movies, Steve Fisher, The Shadow
Sinister Cinema: An Oscar-Winning Pulp Reader
Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. Brought to you by that expert pulp hound John Locke. Take it away, John: Who knew you could win an Oscar for reading a pulp mag on screen? But here is Tatum … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Clues, John Locke, Oscar, Paper Moon, Pulps in the Movies, Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Wesso
Hammett: The Lineup for Including Murder
If you don’t have the issue of Clues with the Robert S. Powell article on Including Murder, you may wonder which stories would have made up what would have been Hammett’s first book, if it had been published — all Continental Op tales … Continue reading
Posted in Dash
Tagged "Bodies Piled Up", "Crooked Souls", "Night Shots", "One Hour", "The Gatewood Caper", "The Gatewood Thing", "The Girl with the Silver Eyes", "The Goiden Horseshoe", "The House in Turk Street", "The Secret Emperor", "Women Politics and Murder", "Zigzags of Treachery", 620 Eddy, Black Mask, Clues, Including Murder, Phil Cody, Pulps, pure texts, Richard Layman, Robert S. Powell
Hammett: Including Murder
A few months back Evan Lewis of Davy Crockett’s Almanack let me know he was drifting into town, so I lined up a day where I could show him and his wife as many of the lost byways, precipice gradiants, … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, REH, Willeford
Tagged "Bodies Piled Up", "Night Shots", "The Gatewood Caper", 620 Eddy, Black Mask, Blood and Thunder, Cap Shaw, Clues, Dave Lewis, Donald Wandrei, E. R. Hagemann, Evan Lewis, Frederick Nebel, Howard Wandrei, Humanities Research Center, Including Murder, John D. MacDonald, Leslie Charteris, Lester Dent, Lillian Hellman, Pulps, pure texts, Robert S. Powell, Terry Zobeck, Tony Hillerman, Will Murray
