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
Arkham House Ephemera
The Classic Years 1937–1973
Death Lit
Essays and Reviews Selected from Fifty Years of Writing 1974–2024
Willeford
The Book
Tag Archives: Edwin Baird
Rediscovered: Kornbluth
How about another Autograph Hound Saturday? It’s been awhile, and on the side the topic came up of authors who have rare signatures — if you’ve got enough loot laying around, you can shell it out but the autos that … Continue reading
Posted in Lit
Tagged Autographs, Brian Leno, C. M. Kornbluth, Edwin Baird, Henry Kuttner, Henry S. Whitehead, James Tiptree Jr, Thomaas Pynchon, William Shatner, Zenna Henderson
Rediscovered: Edwin Baird Inscription
It’s Autograph Hound Saturday again, and we all know the biggest Autograph Hound making paw prints on These Mean Streets is none other than Brian Leno. Given this opportunity to display a few of the John Hancocks in his trove, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Argosy, Autographs, Brian Leno, Edward Arnold, Edwin Baird, T.C. O'Donnell, The Heart of Virginia Keep, Weird Tales
