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Calico JesseGot to a section of the Cleansing of Poisonville that is almost certainly edited down in the Red Harvest, and understandably. Beginning of part 3 new agents arrive, and he gives a summary of the first two parts to catch them up. Necessary for a magazine where the reader might not have seen part 1 and 2, but easily glossed over in a novel. Always interesting to see the evolution of a work. <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Noir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noir</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/HardBoiled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HardBoiled</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Poisonville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poisonville</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/RedHarvest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedHarvest</a>

Calico Jesse“So you’re still alive,” she said. “Well, I suppose nothing can be done about it. Come on in.”—Dashiell Hammett, Crime Wanted: Male or Female (1927)<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/CrimeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CrimeFiction</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mystery</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Noir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noir</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/HardBoiled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HardBoiled</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Detective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Detective</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ShesWatchingTheDetectives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ShesWatchingTheDetectives</a>

Calico JesseThe funny part about reading stories from the prohibition era, is they almost always are drinking like it isn’t the prohibition era.Only occasionally does the illegality actually come up. Been reading a collection of early Dashiell Hammett, and it only just dawned on me that the entire collection was written during prohibition. <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Gumshoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gumshoe</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/HardBoiled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HardBoiled</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DashiellHammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DashiellHammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Detective" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Detective</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ContinentalOp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContinentalOp</a>

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Calico Jesse“We got not another word out of her; and that is the only way in the world to beat the grilling game. The average suspect tries to talk himself out of being arrested; and it doesn't matter how shrewd a man is, or how good a liar, if he'll talk to you, and you play your cards right, you can hook him-can make him help you convict him. But if he won't talk you can't do a thing with him.” —Dashiell <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammett</a>, Zigzags of Treachery, 1924Still good advice. When in doubt, shut up.<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Noir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noir</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mystery</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ACAB</a>

Mark CogginsSan Francisco is always billed as Dashiell Hammett's town, but did you know that fellow hard-boiled master Raymond Chandler lived there first?Check out my little piece on the unexpected experience they had in common during their time in the city on crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet:<a href="https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/02/whose-town-is-it-anyway.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/02/whose-town-is-it-anyway.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/raymondchandler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raymondchandler</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dashiellhammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dashiellhammett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hammett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chandler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chandler</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmReading</a> @bookstodon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReadingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadingCommunity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/noir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#noir</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thriller</a>

Mark CogginsSpade & Archer in color<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foto</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fotografie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fotografie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stilllife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stilllife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stilllifephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stilllifephotography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dashiellhammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dashiellhammett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hammett</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/maltesefalcon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maltesefalcon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanfrancisco</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fensterfreitag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fensterfreitag</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/windowfriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windowfriday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/night" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#night</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nightphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nightphotography</a>

Calico JesseLots of cool stuff entered the public domain this year. I particularly love Red Harvest and Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.And Pandora’s Box, another fantastic silent film. Always worth looking at the list:<a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/PublicDomain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicDomain</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Hammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/DashiellHammett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DashiellHammett</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/PandorasBox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PandorasBox</a>

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