Description
Murder in the City:
San Francisco Mysteries
One intriguing way to explore beautiful San Francisco is to hunt for mystery books set in Dashiell Hammett’s city. There have been hundreds of SFO-based murder novels since Hammett’s time, including works by such collected authors as Charles Willeford, Joe Gores and David Dodge.
Nothing is Certain:
Collecting David Dodge
Dodge began his writing career in San Francisco with his tax accountant detective, “Whit” Whitbey, CPA. After World War Two, Dodge’s wanderlust took control. He and his wife set off with their five-year-old daughter for Mexico and South America, and never looked back. Along the way, Dodge wrote humorous, widely popular, travel books and mysteries set in exotic locales. To Catch a Thief, the basis for the Hitchcock film, is easily the most expensive of Dodge’s works. It is not, however, the most elusive.
Norman Corwin: Radio Pioneer
During the 1940s, when radio drama was the center of family entertainment in America, Corwin was known as “the Shakespeare of broadcasting.” From the outset, his work appeared in books; some 60 of his best radio plays have been collected into books.
Ten Years Ago
John Fante
Books into Film
To Catch a Thief, a novel by David Dodge, a film by Alfred Hitchcock.