Tag Archives: pure texts

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 |

Hammett: The Real “Business”

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Don

I just hosted my first Guest Blogger, Brian Leno — how about another one? Up this time is Terry Zobeck, whose name may ring a bell because he turned up the source for the quote where Hammett had called the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dash, Lit, News | Tagged "This King Business", Crime Stories, Frederic Dannay, Library of America, Mystery Stories, Pulps, pure texts, Steven Marcus, Terry Zobeck, Vince Emery, Zobeck Series One |

News: October 2007

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Webmaster

TOURS BY APPOINTMENT Looks like October is going to be nothing but tours by appointment, including the sold-out walk Don is leading for the Pleasanton Library “Big Read” project covering that enduring novel The Maltese Falcon. With rain already sweeping … Continue reading →