
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: William Faulkner
Rediscovered: Does Continuity Matter?
For those who enjoy chewing the fat about books and writers, in email the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook and I recently got off on another little thread that might interest some of you: Kevin: Of course the … Continue reading
Rediscovered: Leigh Brackett at 100
Leigh Brackett would have been 26 the day Pearl Harbor came under attack, and today is birthday 100. My pal Morgan Holmes mentioned the anniversary to me the other day, saying various people were doing an array of blog posts … Continue reading
Posted in DMac, Film, Lit, News
Tagged Arkham House, Autographs, Bacall, Bogie, Edmond Hamilton, George Lucas, Jack Williamson, John D. Haefele, John Wayne, Leigh Brackett, Michael Connelly, Morgan Holmes, Pearl Harbor, PulpFest, Ray Bradbury, Weird Tales, William Faulkner
Hollywood Beat: Becoming an Instant Icon
Just got a note from Nathan Ward, who is in LA doing more on-the-ground research for his biography of Dashiell Hammett — needless to say, as soon as that one is available I’ll alert everyone who surfs Up and Down These Mean … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lit
Tagged Bacall, Ernest Hemingway, Nathan Ward, To Have and Have Not, William Faulkner





