Tag Archives: Hammett Tour Book

Hammett: The Return of

Posted on April 20, 2025 by Don

Terry Zobeck keeps his eye peeled like a Pinkerton’s man and let me know the Hammett Tour book gets some nice blurbage from Max Allan Collins on CrimeReads. Thank you, thank you — to both. Looks as if Hard Case … Continue reading →

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Hammett: The Jeopardy! Roundup

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Don

For fun I’ve been keeping track of the times Hammett or something to do with Hammett (i.e. Sam Spade or Lillian Hellman) popped up on the game show Jeopardy! Kind of a marker of the cultural zeitgeist. Now that the … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Chewing Over Crime and Communism

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Don

For Xmas on the Hammett front this year, obviously grabbing a copy of The Big Book of the Continental Op is first on the list — just try stuffing that floppy behemoth of a trade paperback into the old stocking! And anyone … Continue reading →

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Tour: The Kermit Sheets Copy

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Don

Grizzled eBay gunhawk Brian Leno told me that a signed copy of an old tour book currently is on the block — Buy It Now for $39.50. First printing of the second edition from 1982. Same printing as the copy I … Continue reading →

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Tombstone: Blackjack Jerome — or, What I Did on Hammett’s 121st Birthday

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Don

Earlier this year Fondas Ladis from Greece was in the burg, researching a biography of John “Blackjack” Jerome. Blackjack was a Greek, who among other activities became famous as a strikebreaker, in San Francisco and around the country. Tradition has … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: Noir at SFO

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Don

Man. Look at this ultra-Frisco display of noir: Left to right, the latest and greatest edition of the Hammett Tour book (trade paperback state), Nathaniel Rich’s survey of noir films shot or set in the Cool Grey City, and the … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: “Cairo’s Hotel” Grabs a New Alias

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Don

In the latest and greatest edition of The Dashiell Hammett Tour book, I advance a new theory about why the various fictitious hotels in The Maltese Falcon picked up their names — one of several fresh litcrit wrinkles I toss in, … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Dell Mapback Backs

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Don

As part and parcel of his ongoing Op mania, today Evan Lewis put up nice large images of the various back covers for the Dell Mapbacks containing Continental Op tales by Hammett — and if you don’t know, yes, they feature … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Lost Books of the Amazon

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Don

After who knows how many years of goofing off, I finally got around to getting my Author Page on Amazon looking pretty.  Some photos, a basic blurb, updates fed in from this blog — and a few but by no means all … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Some Spaghetti with that Western, Please

Posted on October 22, 2013 by Don

As I was just saying in my last post, a guy from Spain came out on the tour and mentioned that Hammett’s novel Red Harvest had been made as a Spaghetti Western — and, no, he wasn’t talking about A … Continue reading →

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