The Lost Detective (23 page)
Read The Lost Detective Online
Authors: Nathan Ward
Rothman, Sheila.
Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History
. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Stanford, Sally.
The Lady of the House
. New York: Putnam, 1966.
Stewart, Donald Ogden, ed.
Fighting Words
. Harcourt Brace, 1940.
Stiles, T. J.
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
. New York: Vintage, 2003.
Summerscale, Kate.
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
Symons, Julian.
Dashiell Hammett
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985.
Thompson, Josiah.
Gumshoe
. New York: Fawcett, 1988.
Triplett, Frank.
The Life, Times, and Treacherous Death of Jesse James
. Columbus, OH: The Swallow Press, 1970. First published 1882 by J.H. Chambers & Co., Chicago.
Vidocq, François Eugene.
Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime
. Oakland, CA: AK Press/Nabat, 2003.
Wright Cobb, Sally, and Mark Willems.
The Brown Derby Restaurant
. New York: Rizzoli, 1996.
“All Sonoma Minted Gold Found; Sailor Suspected.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Dec. 2, 1921, p. 1.
“The Ambush of William Rice.” (Cleveland)
Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine
, May 4, 1941.
“Boston Women Laud Finger Print Plan.”
Finger Print and Identification Magazine
, 4, no. 1 (July 1922): 4.
Chandler, Raymond. “Writers in Hollywood.”
The Atlantic
, Nov. 1945.
“Charges Rice Death to ‘Rich Interests.’”(Cleveland)
Plain Dealer
, Jan. 12, 1911, p. 1.
Daly, John Jay. “Secrets of the Secret Service.” (Uniontown, PA)
Daily News Standard
, April 5, 1939, p. 11.
“Daring Thieves Rob Woman of $3000 in Gems.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Nov. 20, 1920, p. 6.
“Dashiell Hammett Has Hard Words for Tough Stuff He Used to Write.”
Los Angeles Times
, June 7, 1950, p. A3.
“Deed Executed with Finger Prints.” Editorial.
Finger Print and Identification Magazine
2, no. 4 (Oct. 1920): 2.
“Ex-Pastor, Held as Thief, Admits Many Burglaries.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jan. 13, 1922, p. 1.
Farbstein W. E. “Technique of Stopping a Run on a Bank.”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 26, 1931, p. 10.
Fechheimer, David. “Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco.” Special issue
City of San Francisco
magazine 9, no. 17, Nov. 4, 1975.
“Fiction Wrong about Sleuths, Moving Pictures Mirror Them Truthfully, Says Pinkerton.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, June 21, 1922, p. 16.
“Greater Study of Crime Urged by Police Head.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Aug. 2, 1922, p. 11.
Hammett, Dashiell. “Albert Pastor at Home.”
Esquire: The Quarterly for Men
. Autumn 1933, p. 34.
“Hammett Will Do Stage Play.”
Los Angeles Times
, May 29, 1934, p. 10.
“Have Sworn to Destroy the Rulers of China.”
San Francisco Call
83, no. 40 (Jan. 9, 1898): 1. The
Call
’s reporter goes undercover into the Tong gangs of San Francisco.
“The Issue in Butte.”
The New Republic
, Sept. 22, 1917, pp. 215–16.
The Jewelers’ Circular
83, no. 2 (Nov. 16, 1921). For quote from Phil Geauque about jewel thief, p. 121.
Lieber, Fritz. “Stalking Sam Spade.”
California Living
, Jan. 13, 1974.
“Oakland Captive Found Guilty of St. Paul Robbery.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, June 25, 1922, p. B1.
“Oakland Police Arrest Two in $130,000 Theft.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 11, 1922, p. 13.
“$104,000 Sonoma Gold Recovered; Three Held.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Nov. 29, 1921, p. 1.
Pierpont, Claudia Roth. “Tough Guy: The Mystery of Dashiell Hammett.”
New Yorker
, Feb. 11, 2002, pp. 66–75.
“Pinkerton Here to Curb Crooks.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Feb. 8, 1915, p. 12.
“Pinkerton Man Retires.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Oct. 22, 1902, p. 14.
“Pinkerton Men Finish Work on Liquor Robbery.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 6, 1922, p. 2.
“Pinkertons Claim Rice Case Solved.” (Cleveland)
Plain Dealer
, Feb. 15, 1912, p. 1.
“Quartet Holds Up Officials on Cable Car.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jan. 4, 1922, p. 1.
Rivett, Julie M. “On Samuel Spade and Samuel Dashiell Hammett: A Granddaughter’s Perspective.”
Clues: A Journal of Detection
23, no. 2 (Winter 2005): 11–20.
Roberts, Charles. “The Cushman Indian Trades School and World War I.”
American Indian Quarterly
11, no. 3 (Summer 1987): 221–39.
Saltzstein, Dan. “San Francisco Noir.”
New York Times
, June 6, 2014, Travel section, p. 1.
Scheuer, Philip K. “Career as Detective Gives Mystery Writer No ‘Ideas.’”
Los Angeles Times
, Nov. 11, 1934, p. A3.
“S.F. Cable Car Bandit Suspect Under Arrest.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jan. 8, 1922, p. B11.
Sherwood, E. “A Jeweler Pays for Advertising Lost Articles.”
Printer’s Ink
111 (May 20, 1920): p.137.
“Sleuths Begin Man Hunt for Members of Menlo Park Crew of Bandits.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 3, 1922, p. 3.
“Sleuths Shoot at Cable Car Bandit Suspect.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jan. 9, 1922, p. 3.
Stein, Gertrude. “Why I Like Detective Stories.”
Harper’s Bazaar
, Nov. 1937.
“Stolen Gold Removed Here, Say Officials.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Nov. 26, 1921, p. 3.
“Super Police Trail Thieves by Radio.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Oct. 9, 1921, p. E1.
“Suspected Murderer from East Captured.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Feb. 22, 1911, p. 12.
“Swindler Uses Novel Plan to Escape Police.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, March 29, 1921, p. 11.
Trobits, Monika. “Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco in the 1920s.”
The Argonaut: Journal of the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society
(Winter 2011): 36.
“Tuberculosis Victims to be Rehabilitated.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, July 2, 1922, p. F4.
“Victims of Daylight Robbery on Street Car.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Jan. 4, 1922, p. 2.
“Warrant for Quartermaster Of Sonoma Issued in Theft of $122,000 Gold on Liner.”
San Francisco Chronicle
, Dec. 3, 1921, p. 3.
Watts, Richard Jr. “A Defense of Gangster Films.”
New York Herald Tribune
, April 26, 1931, p. 4.
Butte–Silver Bow Public Archives.
Brooklyn Historical Society/Othmer Library.
Harry Ransom Center/University of Texas at Austin.
Homestead (FL) Historic Town Hall Museum.
New York City Municipal Archives.
New York Public Library (Forty-Second Street branch).
New York University/Bobst Library.
Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records, 1853–1999, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco History Center/San Francisco Public Library (main branch).
Ancestry (
www.ancestry.com
)
For census and military records, including Hammett’s draft registration, and family tree. See where he lived when and what he was calling himself.
The Dashiell Hammett Website (
www.mikehumbert.com
)
An excellent gathering place for Hammett fans, with photo galleries, Hammett news, and a publishing chronology that is as helpful as it is beautiful.
Detnovel (
www.DetNovel.com
)
A good background resource for short bios and novel encapsulations.
January Magazine
(januarymagazine.com)
See Richard Layman, “There’s Only One Maltese Falcon,” Feb. 15, 2005.
Montana Professor: A Journal of Education, Politics, and Culture
(
http://mtprof.msun.edu
)
See Jack Crowley, “
Red Harvest
and Dashiell Hammett’s Butte,”
The Montana Professor
18, no. 2 (Spring 2008).
Only in Butte (
www.butteamerica.com/hist.htm
)
See George Everett’s “The Seeds of
Red Harvest
: Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville.”
San Francisco City Directories Online (
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000540401
)
The History Center at the San Francisco Public Library also has many of its holdings online, such as city directories over the years, helpful for tracking Hammett’s moves around his adopted town.
SFGate
(
www.SFGate.com
)
See Marianne Constantinou, “This Aspiring Poet Read
The Maltese Falcon
and His Life was Transformed,” Feb. 15, 2005.
SFWeekly
(
www.SFWeekly.com
)
See “Best Private Investigator,” May 11, 2011.
Smithsonian (
www.smithsonian.com
)
See Megan Gambino, “When Gertrude Stein Toured America,” Oct. 14, 2011; also Gilbert King, “The Skinny on the Fatty Arbuckle Trial,” Nov. 8, 2011.
Strand Magazine
(
www.StrandMag.com
)
A serious and lush revival publication devoted largely to Sherlock Holmes, but which made news recently with several “lost” Hammett stories. Also features interviews with current mystery authors and excerpts from new works.
Thrilling Detective (
http://www.thrillingdetective.com
)
Among its hard-boiled offerings, this site ran the now-famous photograph of the gathering of West Coast
Black Mask
contributors at which Chandler and Hammett met.
Up and Down These Mean Streets
(
www.donherron.com
)
In Don Herron’s blog, “Hammett: Playing the Sap” March 5, 2011, and so many other entries on this vital Hammett site
run by the town crier of the hard-boiled world and founder of the city’s famous Hammett tour. All things Hammett eventually go through Don’s website, hopefully with his commentary.
Up from the Deep
(
http://upfromthedeep.com
)
Especially strong for its architectural survey of the historical Tenderloin.
The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco (
http://www.sfmuseum.org
)
A research site for scholars and buffs or families researching their San Francisco history. It offers terrific slide shows as well as its Register of the 1906 dead in the earthquake and fire.
Weekly Standard
(
www.WeeklyStandard.com
)
See Lauren Weiner, “The Bull of Baltimore,” Nov. 10, 2010.
Note: page numbers followed by n refer to notes
Action Stories
(periodical),
here
Albert Samuels Jewelers,
here
Hammett’s employment at,
here
,
here
,
here
Alfred A. Knopf Publishers.
See
Knopf Publishers
American Magazine,
here
Anaconda, Montana
Jose Hammett’s visits to,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
Jose Hammett’s youth in,
here
,
here
as setting in Hammett’s fiction,
here
Anderson, Robert Mailer,
here
Arbuckle, Fatty,
here
,
here
,
here
Argosy All-Story
(periodical),
here
Arney, Bill,
here
Asbury, Herbert,
here
Atlantic Monthly
,
here
Bancroft, George,
here
Barnaby, Josephine,
here
Barry, John M.,
here
Bidwell, Austin,
here
Big Trouble
(Lukas),
here
n1
The Black Mask
(periodical)
contributors party (1936),
here
demand for action in stories,
here
founding of,
here
Hammett as prominent contributor to,
here
,
here
Hammett’s departure from,
here
Hammett stories in,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
Hammett stories rejected by,
here
blackmasking, Hammett on,
here
Burnett, W. R.,
here
Butte, Montana
Hammett in,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
miner labor tensions in,
here
,
here
as setting in Hammett’s fiction,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
cable car robbery case,
here
Camp Kearney, California,
here
,
here
Camp Meade, Maryland,
here
,
here
,
here
Chinatown, in Hammett’s fiction,
here
City of San Francisco
(periodical),
here
City Streets
(film),
here
Cody, Phil,
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
Collins, Wilkie,
here
