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

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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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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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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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Spade & Archer in color

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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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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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