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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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Tag Archives: “Death and Company”
Hammett: Another Farewell Murder
Evan Lewis keeps at his exploration of digital newspaper morgues, finding the Op yarn “The Farewell Murder” (1930) reprinted in December 1939 in the Detroit Free Press. How many Op reprints? How many times? How many papers? Maybe someday Evan … Continue reading
Posted in Dash
Tagged "Death and Company", "The Farewell Murder", Black Mask, Detroit Free Press, Evan Lewis, newspaper action
Hammett: Almost Complete, If Spread Thin, Man. . .
Image above: one cover from the new set of eBooks collecting the Op short stories. My morning inbox featured Michael S. Chong sending along a link to an interview about the series. I’ve known for a few months that some … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Going Op Crazy
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
891 Post: And More on 895 Post
How about another 891 Post post? Eighteen people hauled out for the walk on September 21, including Warren Harris of Midget Bandit Week fame (so naturally I had to do lots of extra coverage of Edwin Ware) and a guy named … Continue reading
Rediscovered: More on Alice Speed Stoll
A year ago, this very month, our Guest Blogger veteran Terry Zobeck explored the references to real life kidnappings in various incarnations of the Hammett story “Death and Company” — which included the 1934 Alice Speed Stoll caper. Just got … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, News
Tagged "Death and Company", Alcatraz, Alice Speed Stoll, Steven Key Meyers, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: More “Corkscrew”
Add Evan Lewis to the list of people — alongside me, Terry Zobeck, Lillian Hellman —who dig the Hammett western satire “Corkscrew.” He just put up a post talking about it and the other contents of the Dell Mapback Nightmare … Continue reading
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Tagged "Corkscrew", "Death and Company", "It", Evan Lewis, Frederic Dannay, Lillian Hellman, pure texts, Terry Zobeck
Hammett: Thoughts on “House Burglary”
Wrapped in its art deco cover, the lost interview with Hammett from 1929 that Terry Zobeck located — “House Burglary Poor Trade” — is the author at a peak. Still writing for Black Mask. Not yet Hollywood. Charming, and willing to answer … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Lit, Tour
Tagged "Death and Company", "House Burglary Poor Trade", "The SImple Art of Murder", "The Thin Man", Alfred Packer, Black Mask, Brooklyn Eagle, Eve Sanderson, Hammett Tour Book, Helen Herbert Foster, Jerome Weidman, Jo Hammett, John Jacobs, Raymond Chandler, Red Harvest, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Bookman, The Maltese Falcon Society
Hammett: Coining “The Continental Op”
Was it Cap Shaw? Was it some unheralded editorial assistant? Terry Zobeck plunged into his Black Mask collection to check on who first used the coinage “The Continental Op” to describe Hammett’s short fat Frisco sleuth. That’s with a capital … Continue reading
Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News
Tagged "Death and Company", "Pick-Up", "The Farewell Murder", "The Whosis Kid", Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Frederic Dannay, Including Murder, Pulps, Terry Zobeck, The Dain Curse
