Tag Archives: E. Hoffmann Price

Frisco Beat: The Return of Donald Sidney-Fryer

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Don

This coming Saturday, September 17, starting at 3p.m., you’ll find Donald Sidney-Fryer back in town for a signing in Borderlands. He did his stint as a San Francisco writer, starting sometime in the 1960s, tossing himself full tilt into the Hippie Scene … Continue reading →

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Mort: Philip Rahman

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Don

When I headed out for the tour on July 23, I knew it was birthday number 123 for Raymond Chandler, courtesy a quick blurb on The Rap Sheet. The media at large was covering the discovery of Amy Winehouse’s body earlier that … Continue reading →

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Two-Gun Bob: Hard-Boiled and Deviled Again

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Don

“Where on Earth is Don Herron?” asked Al Harron (no relation, or none that I know of — I have been remiss in my geneaological studies the last few years) on his blog just last month. Al trailed after Damon Sasser’s original “Where in the … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Notes on Wetjen by Ed Price

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Don

Sometimes the prolific pulp writer E. Hoffmann Price would make a single notation in a book from his library, other times no marks at all. One time I visited him in his home in the hills above Redwood City just as he was … Continue reading →

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