Dashiell Hammett lived in this San Francisco building while writing The Maltese Falcon
Hammett – and Spade – lived in the top, right apartment.
Scene of the Crime
The Flood Building, where Hammett worked as a Pinkerton Agent.
John’s Grill, where Spade dined, still in business after all these decades.
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Frederic Forrest as Dashiell Hammett in Wim Wender’s Hammett.
better image than previously posted
cover art by John Decker
~ John Ayotte, “The Black Cracksman”, ‘A white Hawaiian thrill’, 6th of 10 stories in BM
~ Eustace Hale Ball, “Grandfather’s Will”, 8th of 13 stories in BM
~ ‘Peter Collinson’ (Dashiell Hammett), “Arson Plus”, ‘1st Continental Op story & billed as ‘full of fire’; see p, 127 for letter by DH’, 3rd of 4 stories under this name, reprinted in The Arbor House Treasury of Detective & Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps (1983), reprinted in The Black Lizard Big Book of Black Mask Stories (Vintage, 2010)
~ Donald Feak, “Black Commandments”, ‘South Seas Tale’, 2nd of 3 stories in BM
~ Newton A. Fuessle, “The Purple Mask”, ‘Kenneth Fuessle and Newton may be the same writer’, 2nd of 2 stories under this name
~ Robert Russell, “Greggs Over-Reaches”, last of 3 stories in BM
~ Harry Simon, “The Man Who Passed Judgment”, 2nd of 2 stories in BM
~ Charles Somerville, “The Sleepless Eye”, 16th of 47 articles in the ‘Manhunter’ series
~ Willett Stockard, “Hutch Blood”, ‘billed as “a Black Mask weirdity”’, 4th of 5 stories in BM
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