Tag Archives: Hammett Tour Book

Hammett: Have Pen, Will Edit

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Don

Terry Zobeck returns for another Guest Blog spot, to kick off the month of June. He plans on more posts on pure texts to follow his detailed surveys of “This King Business” and “Death and Company.” This time he looks into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit | Tagged 620 Eddy, Black Mask, H. Bedford-Jones, Hammett Tour Book, Pulps, Terry Zobeck, Writer's Digest |

Death Lit: Ace Atkins Returns!

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Don

Ace Atkins is returning to “M” is for Mystery in San Mateo for a signing of his latest novel, The Ranger, on Tuesday June 14, 7 p.m. Unless I’m jumped and blackjacked into some noir limbo, I plan to be there. … Continue reading →

Posted in Lit, News | Tagged Ace Atkins, Book Collecting, Bouchercon, Hammett Tour Book, Philip Marlowe, Robert B. Parker, Spenser, Vince Emery |

Hammett: More on “Death”

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Don

Prompted by Terry Zobeck’s post on “Death and Company,” I pulled out my Dell Mapback edition of The Return of the Continental Op and checked through all his corrections. Took a little bit of work, since Terry’s page and line numbers refer to … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Frisco, Lit, News, Tour | Tagged "Death and Company", "Mike Alec or Rufus", "The Creeping Siamese", "The Farewell Murder", "The Thin Man", "Women Politics and Murder", 408 Turk, 620 Eddy, 891 Post, 895 Post, Bill Arney, Black Mask, Cap Shaw, Dell Mapbacks, Frederic Dannay, Hammett Tour Book, Pru Whitfield, Pulps, pure texts, Terry Zobeck, The Glass Key, The Return of the Continental Op |

Tour: Banner Ad

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Don

I’ve got to give Vince Emery credit for his job publishing the newest edition of the Hammett Tour book — and he tells me that he has taken out a banner ad for the trade paperback printing over on the … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Tour | Tagged "Mr. Hunt", Hammett Tour Book, Measures of Poison, Thrilling Detective, Vince Emery |

Rediscovered: Redonda!

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Don

I’m confident it was my pal Steve Eng who brought M. P. Shiel fully to my attention some thirty years ago. Like anyone else interested in horror and fantastic literature, I’d have come across the name already, courtesy at least … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, DMac, Frisco, Lit | Tagged "The Gutting of Couffignal", Arthur Machen, Black Mask, Book Collecting, Dylan Thomas, Hammett Tour Book, Henry Miller, John D. Squires, John Gawsworth, Lovecraft, M. P. Shiel, Redonda, Steve Eng |

Tour: Death in the Tenderloin

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Don

Mike Humbert came out on the tour this past Sunday and popped one of the many asides that make the walk the meta-tour that it is up on his personal YouTube channel. You may know Mike’s name — he did the maps … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Tour | Tagged Hammett Tour Book, Mike Humbert, murder, Orontes, Tenderloin |

Tour: Third Printing

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Don

The other day copies of the new trade paperback state of The Dashiell Hammett Tour: Thirtieth Anniversary Guidebook gumshoed up to the door. Very nice — the colors on the covers are even brighter than on the hardback printing. Slick. Yeah, … Continue reading →

Posted in DMac, Lit, Tour, Willeford | Tagged Book Collecting, Green Apple Books, Hammett Tour Book, Kevin Hunsanger, Kindle, Vince Emery |

News: January 2010

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Webmaster

YEAR 33 Another year, Don’s thirty-third on the mean streets, another round of bleak noir rains rolling over the old town. No extra tours are set for this month, but you can get the new edition of The Dashiell Hammett … Continue reading →

Posted in DMac, Film, News, Tour | Tagged Black Mask, Castro Theatre, Eddie Muller, Falcon from Knopf, Hammett Tour Book, Kindle, Noir City, Otto Penzler, Pulps, USA Today, Valentine, Vince Emery, Wall Street Journal |

News: December 2009

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Webmaster

HAPPY HARDBOILED HOLIDAYS In this case, from a few of the folk who showed up for the Hammett Flash Mob on April 2nd of this year — but doesn’t the heavy red and green décor of The Ha-Ra Bar just … Continue reading →

Posted in Frisco, Lit, News, SFSC | Tagged Ace Atkins, Arkham House, August Derleth, David Fechheimer, Firsts, Gary Warne, Ha-Ra Bar, Hammett Tour Book, Irving Glick, John D. Haefele, Kindle, Lovecraft, Vince Emery, Wall Street Journal |

News: July 2009

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Webmaster

NO EXTRA TOURS Don is leading some groups by appointment up and over the mean streets in July and August, but nothing has been set up where anyone can just show up with a tenspot and walk the walk — … Continue reading →