Tag Archives: Marc LaViolette

Hammett: Unearthed — The Samuels’ Campaign

Posted on December 1, 2019 by Don

We haven’t seen a lot of Tenderloin Terry Zobeck recently, but you know he’s out there, ever sleuthing the Mean Streets. He’s been working on finalizing his biblio of Lawrence Block, but when he gets scent of a Hammett quest, … Continue reading →

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Hammett: More Reviews from a “Careful Reading, Deep Thinking Advertising Man”

Posted on December 26, 2017 by Don

Terry Zobeck has raided the Library of Congress again, and found that they now have color copiers — but that copies of Western Advertising are a bit larger than their scanner bed, and that his scanner program just doesn’t do … Continue reading →

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Hammett: More “Gutman’s Daughter”

Posted on May 15, 2016 by Don

You may remember Marc LaViolette from the caper where he noticed something wrong in the Hammett collection Nightmare Town, and rang up Terry “Race” Zobeck, Pure Text Dick, to get to the bottom of it. Mystery solved. Case closed. The usual. … Continue reading →

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Hammett: A Wandering Sentences Job

Posted on December 5, 2015 by Don

It was another case for Race Zobeck, Confidential Pure Text Dick. The email came winging in lazily over the transom. The client’s moniker was LaViolette. Marc LaViolette. At least that’s what he claimed. . . . He’d gotten bit by the … Continue reading →

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