Entries from Blood on the Page tagged with 'San Francisco'
CrimeWAV Special: Dashiell Hammett - "The Barber and His Wife"
Today I'm happy to bring you Dashiell Hammett's story "The Barber and His Wife" (1923) with permission from the Literary Property Trust of Dashiell Hammett and with thanks to Vince Emery for sending me a copy of the book Lost... more
Dante... meet Scottie, you'll like him
The first flashback came when I wandered through the Marina and found myself walking past a building that was, quite deliberately, designed to look like a Roman ruin, a sketch from Piranesi made real to be precise. It's called the... more
A book derailed.. what real life does to authors
So, as I related yesterday, there I was about to write a book called Dante's Numbers, set entirely in Rome around a movie based upon Dante' Inferno. Easy peasy. Or as easy peasy as it ever gets. Then, out of... more