The Lost Detective (26 page)
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Authors: Nathan Ward
stigma attached to,
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wife and,
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Tulip
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Two Evil Isms
(Siringo),
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An Unfinished Woman
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Universal Studios,
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The Valley of Fear
(Doyle),
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Vance, Philo (character),
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Van Dine, S. S.,
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Vidocq, François Eugene,
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Warner Brothers Studio,
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West, Nathanael “Pep,”
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Western Advertising
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Wild Bunch gang,
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at Pinkerton Detective Agency,
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Woollcott, Alexander,
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World War I service,
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medical discharge,
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Wright, James “Jimmy,”
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writing career of Hammett,
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early detective fiction,
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early fiction and poems,
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money troubles of successful years,
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The Big Knockover,
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in Continental Op stories,
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development of,
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as new American style,
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Young Sam Hammett in his parents’ backyard on North Stricker Street in Baltimore, just before leaving the Pinkertons for the Army in 1918. (Julie M. Rivett)
“Dearest Woman,” Josephine Annis Dolan (called Jose), met Sam Hammett when he was brought to the Cushman Institute in the fall of 1920. (Julie M. Rivett)
Transferred for his health, the smitten young lung patient has a smoke outside San Diego, 1921. (Julie M. Rivett)
Advertisement for Pinkerton’s San Francisco office, 1920, with Hammett’s supervisor, Phil Geauque, the future Secret Service man, on the masthead. (Internet Archive)
San Francisco’s James Flood Building on Market Street near the cable-car turnaround on Powell. Pinkerton’s had room 314. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)
The renowned Pinkerton detective James McParland probably inspired the Continental Agency’s Old Man (“A tall, plump man in his seventies ... with a white-mustached, baby-pink, grandfatherly face, mild blue eyes behind rimless spectacles”), as well as a character in a late Sherlock Holmes novel. (Library of Congress)
Tough guy in transition: the ex-detective and emerging artist lights a match on the rooftop of the Crawford Apartments on Eddy Street in San Francisco, August 10, 1925. (Julie M. Rivett)
The natty young father sitting with daughter Mary in approximately the same year, 1925, with San Francisco stretching wide-open behind them (Julie M. Rivett)
