Re: RARA-AVIS: Theme of the month - San Francisco

From: Mark Sullivan ( DJ-Anonyme@webtv.net)
Date: 02 Oct 2001


You've got to love a city that puts up a historical marker for a fictional event:

"ON APPROXIMATELY THIS SPOT MILES ARCHER, PARTNER OF SAM SPADE, WAS DONE IN BY BRIGID O'SHAUGNESSY."

The Immortal Game by Mark Coggins makes good use of its San Francisco setting, including many locations from Hammett's fiction. I pulled out my copy of Don Herron's Dashiell Hammett Tour as I was reading it, so I'd get the references.

I didn't get a chance to go on Herron's tour the one time I visited SF
(I did get my picture taken under the above marker, though), but a friend of mine recently did and she thoroughly enjoyed it and sitting in a bar with Herron afterwards, talking about Hammett (and Willeford).

Mark

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