
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: Frank Sinatra
Rediscovered: A Couple of Walla Walla Footnotes for The Memoli Thread
Iris Odonata sent me a few additional tidbits on her Dad, Joe Memoli, Made Man — and longtime figure in Oakland, with his restaurants and extracurricular activities. Memoli’s incarceration in Walla Walla inspired me to send Iris a link to … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Charles Manson, Frank Sinatra, Iris Odonata, Joe Memoli, Mustang Ranch, Walla Walla
Hammett: And Stein
Nathan Ward just informed me of a tidbit he did for Crimereads, about the meeting of Hammett and Gertrude Stein. If you have his bio of Hammett, The Lost Detective, you’ve already got the gist of the incident. Especially these … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Joe Memoli, Made Man
Heading up for Xmas dinner with Floyd Salas reminded me that a little over a year ago I promised to correct something else on the website. Now I’ve just been back up to the Floyd lair last weekend for his … Continue reading
Posted in Lit, News
Tagged Boxing, Floyd Salas, Frank Sinatra, Golden Gloves, Iris Odonata, Joe Memoli, Oakland California, Tower of Power





