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.