John's Grill, where Sam Spade ate a dinner of "chops, baked potato, and sliced tomatoes" in THE MALTESE FALCON

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Oltre il Noir, il Black

di Valerio Evangelisti [Pubblicato dall’autore il 10 agosto 2004 su “Carmilla online” e, precedentemente, su [...]

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Did I mention this yet? Don't miss the exciting new conclusion to THE MALTESE FALCON:

https://www.eclectica.org/v29n3/coggins.html

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started a #wikipedia article on @brynmawrcollege alumna, actress, and screenwriter, Frances Prussing LeVino (1890-1944): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Prussing @wikiwomeninred @wikipedia_la #GretaGarbo #DashiellHammett @moviessilently

The funny part about reading stories from the prohibition era, is they almost always are drinking like it isn’t the prohibition era.

Only occasionally does the illegality actually come up. Been reading a collection of early Dashiell Hammett, and it only just dawned on me that the entire collection was written during prohibition.

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«No escribas ni una sola línea que no contenga información útil»

Este #consejo rima con el anterior y es de #DashiellHammett y compañía. Hay que entenderlo en su contexto: un tipo de escritura #pulp, muy directa, sin florituras y sin ambiciones literarias donde prima el entretenimiento.

San Francisco is always billed as Dashiell Hammett's town, but did you know that fellow hard-boiled master Raymond Chandler lived there first?

Check out my little piece on the unexpected experience they had in common during their time in the city on crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet:

https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/02/whose-town-is-it-anyway.html

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Whose Town Is It Anyway?

By Mark Coggins Raymond Chandler , who along with Dashiell Hammett perfected the American hard-boiled detective story, is best known for h...

Lots of cool stuff entered the public domain this year.

I particularly love Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

And Pandora’s Box, another fantastic silent film.

Always worth looking at the list:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/

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Public Domain Day 2025 | Duke University School of Law

Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[1] On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.

Lobby of the Flood Building in San Francisco, where the Pinkertons and investigator Dashiell Hammett had an office in the 1920s. See more here:

http://www.mikehumbert.com/Dashiell_Hammett_18_Flood_Building.html

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