Tag Archives: San Francisco Mysteries

Tour: And As the Year Ended, the MWA Slipped on Their Gumshoes

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Don

For the penultimate walk of 2013 I took out no less than twenty members of the Mystery Writers of America on a two hour version of the tour, highlighting The Maltese Falcon — you’ve got to figure that if someone … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: William Worley

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Don

My article on collecting San Francisco mysteries wraps up with a sequence from William Worley’s 1948 novel My Dead Wife, which captures in an evocative thumbnail moment the appeal of that hobby: I ran uphill a dozen paces to the parapet … Continue reading →

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Frisco Beat: And eBooks Shall Gumshoe the Mean Streets. . .

Posted on August 30, 2013 by Don

John Nardizzi tells me he once worked the Frisco Beat as a private eye for no less than three years, and he returns to the burg with a novel, paying tribute to the city of Sam Spade and a hundred … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Frisco Mysteries

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Don

Randal Brandt of The Bancroft Library — honcho of the website devoted to mysteries set in and around San Francisco — shot in an email announcing an exhibit of local crime novels they just opened in the Bernice Layne Brown Gallery in … Continue reading →

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News: December 2008

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Webmaster

NOTHING EXTRA IN THE OLD STOCKING No extra walks have been set for December, and in fact Don got so buried in other stuff we didn’t even do News for October or November — still, we figured John’s Grill making … Continue reading →

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