"From Chinatown's covert alleys to the fog-shrouded
Golden
Gate, crooked politicians ran the town and fattened on
it's
spoils. To Hammett, retired Pinkerton detective and
struggling writer, it was all just grist for his
fictional
mill -- until the night his pal walked into a baseball
bat
in a bootlegger's closet and Hammett put up his
typewriter,
put on his gumshoes and went out to play rough with the
mob."
A pretty entertaining read, as I recall.
Rick
~ ~ ~
"Watch out for the dame with the rod, she's a killer"
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