Tag Archives: Otto Penzler

Hammett: Chump Change

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Don

Evan Lewis, my de facto reporter on the ground for news of the auction of books from the Otto Penzler collection — which is to say, I’m never going to bother to follow something like that, whereas Evan is covering it like … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged Evan Lewis, Lillian Hellman, Otto Penzler, Red Harvest, The Big Knockover |

Hammett: A Paperback for Lillian Hellman

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Don

Apparently a large chunk out of Otto Penzler’s personal collection is going on the block over the next year or two. I know this news because A) it is public information, no black cats out of the bag or anything, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged Autographs, Book Collecting, Creeps by Night, Evan Lewis, Frederic Dannay, Lillian Hellman, Otto Penzler, Pru Whitfield |

Hammett: Almost Complete, If Spread Thin, Man. . .

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Don

Image above: one cover from the new set of eBooks collecting the Op short stories. My morning inbox featured Michael S. Chong sending along a link to an interview about the series. I’ve known for a few months that some … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, News | Tagged "Death and Company", "It", Otto Penzler, Terry Zobeck |

Hammett: Zobeck Takes on The Hunter and Other Stories

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Don

And in celebration of Birthday 120 for Hammett, how about the thoughts of a long-time Hammett fan and collector on the most recent collection of his stories? Ladies and Gentlemen, here’s Terry Zobeck: Back in October Don reviewed The … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News | Tagged "A Knife Will Cut for Anybody", "An Inch and a Half of Glory", "Faith", "Monk and Johnny Foxx", "On the Way", "So I Shot Him", "The Cure", "The Diamond Wager", "The Hunter", "Tulip", Biblioctopus, Bill Pronzini, City Streets, Detective Fiction Weekly, Devil's Playground, Harper's Bazaar, Jack Adrian, James Crumley, Julie Rivett, Lillian Hellman, Mr. Dynamite, On the Make, Otto Penzler, PW, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Hunter and Other Stories, The Kiss-Off, The New Yorker, The Strand Magazine |

Hammett: Two New Collections On the Way

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Don

Our peripatetic Guest Blogger Terry Zobeck roams the mean streets looking for news, when he’s not laired up pulling pure Hammett texts out of moldering pulp magazines. Here’s Terry: Last month I was in St. Louis for Bouchercon — the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Film, Lit, News | Tagged Bouchercon, Mr. Dynamite, New Black Mask, On the Make, Otto Penzler, Radio, Richard Layman, Terry Zobeck, The Adventures of Sam Spade, Thin Man |

Death Lit: The Black (Mask) Bird

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Don

While I’m not doing a regular crime and mystery review column any more, and you’d have a very hard time talking me into the idea again, I still manage to knock out seven or eight standalone reviews every year in … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News, Tour | Tagged AHMM, Big Read, Black Mask, Cornell Woolrich, Erle Stanley Gardner, Falcon from Knopf, Jo Gar, Otto Penzler, pure texts, Raoul Whitfield, Raymond Chandler |

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 →