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Expanded and revised, this 30th-anniversary edition guides readers over the fog-shrouded hills stalked by Sam Spade, the Continental Op, and other legendary characters created by San Francisco's most famous mystery writer, Dashiell Hammett. Detailing locations of interest, including all of Hammett's known residences and the majority of settings from The Maltese Falcon , this guidebook contains maps, self-guided tours, and photographs of Hammett-related locations from both then and now. A new preface by Jo Hammett, the detective writer's daughter and Edgar Award-nominated writer, is also included.

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If you can't go to San Francisco, you can till take the tour vicariously by purchasing The Dashiell Hammett Tour, It contains photos, maps, bibliography, and the best capsule biography of Hammett I have ever read. --The Mystery Fancier

Hammett fans will welcome this guidebook. Illustrated with maps and photos throughout, [it] will appeal to anyone curious about the relation between a writer's life and his work. -- Publishers Weekly

Author Information

Don Herron has led the Dashiell Hammett Tour in San Francisco since 1977. He lives in San Francisco. Jo Hammett has served as the editorial advisor for Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett. She lives in Los Angeles. Charles Willeford was the author of 16 novels. He was literary critic for the Miami Herald and taught at the University of Miami.

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