The Convenient Coward (1961)

The Convenient Coward, by Kenneth E. Shiflet (Stackpole Books, 1961).

Dashiell Hammett Signature Card

Donated to the University of California, Berkeley’s Bancroft Library by Northern California crime novelist Mark Coggins.

Chandler’s Typewriter

This Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter, used by Raymond Chandler to write his final novel, 1958’s Playback, was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024.

Chandler’s Own Falcon

This 1931 edition of Dashiell Hammett’s most famous detective novel, The Maltese Falcon, was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024.

A Poodle in Palm Springs

This humorous poem about a lost poodle in Palm Springs, California, was written by crime novelist Raymond Chandler in 1957. It was part of the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Chandler memorabilia auctioned off by Doyle New York in December 2024. The official description of that item is found here beneath the poem itself.

Gentian Hill (circa 1970), Back Cover

Gentian Hill (1949)

Gentian Hill, by Elizabeth Goudge, published in hardcover by Coward-McCann, 1949.

Review of Walks Far Woman

This is a review of Walks Far Woman, by Colin Stuart, from the Autumn 1977 issue of American Indian Quarterly. Click on the images to enlarge.

Walks Far Woman (1978)

The copyright page of the 1978 Popular Library paperback edition of Colin Stuart’s Walks Far Woman lists only Stuart as that novel’s author.

1920 Pinkerton Ad

This 1920 San Francisco City Directory advertisement for employment with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency lists additional offices in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Seattle, St. Louis, and elsewhere.