Jiro Kimura writ:
> Don Herron was one of the founders of The Maltese
Falcon
> Society (now inactive), another founder being
James(?)
> Fetchheimer, San Francisco private eye.
It's David Fechheimer. If anyone has seen the Hammett &
Chandler episode in the BBC series _The Great Detectives_
they will have seen Fechheimer and Herron (the on-screen
caption renders the '-hh-' '-hn-').
This mention of Fechheimer has just led me to pull Joshiah
Thompson's
_Gumshoe_ off the shelf ... the blurb on the jacket declares
it 'the best book ever written abou the life of a private
eye'. Thompson is an academic who turns to PI work with
Feccheimer's firm. Apart from the San Francisco setting
(which, by co-incidence, is the list's theme of the month!)
there is a Hammett-related episode in which Thompson goes to
Maryland to do some Hammett research.
ED
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