
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: Noir City
News: January 2010
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: November 2009
TOUR SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 In addition to various tours by appointment this month, Don is offering a Hammett walk open to anyone interested — Sunday November 15 at noon, ten bucks, four hours, the usual, just like it says on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Frisco, News, Tour
Tagged 891 Post, Bill Arney, Clan Breiding, Craig Clevenger, Donnie Fritz, Eddie Muller, Frank Synopsis, Noir City, Robert Mailer Anderson, Specious Species
News: February 2007
WALKING THE WALK Once again, all the Hammett tours this month are being done for groups by appointment, but check back from time to time — any extra tours open to the public will be posted here. Or if you … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Film, Frisco, News, Tour
Tagged Autographs, Bob Truluck, Craig Miles Miller, Creature Features, Eddie Muller, Floyd Salas, Gary Phillips, George Pelecanos, James Durham, Jesse Sublett, Jim Nisbet, John Stanley, Jon A. Jackson, Kent Harrington, Measures of Poison, Michael Connelly, Noir City, Scott Phillips





