The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett (2015) by Nathan Ward

Author:Nathan Ward [Ward, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Non Fiction
ISBN: 9781632862778
Google: 65BZCgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-09-14T12:00:00+00:00

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* Since the emergence of photos of Jose and her girls in Anaconda from the fall of 1926, it is clear they went there then. But this earlier separation is hardly settled: Some accounts have them escaping to Anaconda in 1924–25, while others send them off to a little house in Fairfax, California, in 1924. Mary Jane Hammett says 1925 in the Fechheimer interview, but she also says her new sister, Jo, was there, which means it was after the latter’s birth in May 1926. Jo herself mentions the Fairfax house as the place the three went after their six-month Anaconda trip in 1926, and that she learned to walk there. I see no reason to believe they didn’t just move downstairs to a larger place at Eddy Street, perhaps briefly separating within the same building, during the scare of 1924–25.

** Visiting Spofford Alley now, with its Yin-Yin Music Association sign tucked away among massage and reflexology places, it is hard to guess which red door Hammett intended. But the myths were so thick about Chinatown that it might as well have been any of them.

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