An odd tidbit of information, for this columnist, is that a reference to a personal TV series favorite, San Francisco Beat, was not heard once during the weekend event. Then again, neither was Paladin.
San Francisco was touted as leading the nation in two categories: the number per capita of Independent book stores and the per capita number of barrooms.
Due to a clerical error on the columnist's part, we botched the chance to meet and talk to Kelli Stanley about her novel City Dragons, which is about events in San Francisco's Chinatown, during the 1940's.
The 2011 Bouchercon will be held in St. Louis and it will be held September 15 to 18. The following year it moves to Cleveland followed by AlbanyNew York in 2013, and then Long Beach in 2014.
There were folks at Bouchercon 41 promoting the Ninth Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival (AKA Noir City), which begins January 21, 2011, but the list of films to be shown has not been announced yet.
Mystery fans and columnists had to contend with a tsunami of information and so any write-up (such as this column) will have to be subjective, random, and capricious in nature and thus be a disservice to the many deserving authors who didn't get a plug. (Sorry!) Such a column will, however, be a way to set out some Google bait which will cause a great number of mystery writers to find this particular web site.
There is enough information about crime fiction set in San Francisco to fill a book, which is precisely the reason why the book titled Golden Gate Mysteries is being published by the University of California at Berkeley.
The 125 Anniversary edition of Bartlett's saw fit to include this quote from Dashiell Hammett's hard-boiled classic, The Maltese Falcon: "That's the part of it I [Sam Spade] always liked. He [Flitcraft] adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to their not falling."
Now the disk jockey will play the soundtrack albums from the movies: Bullitt, Vertigo, and Dirty Harry. We have to go to the Berkeley Public Library and start whittling down our now gigantic sized "must read" list. Have a "Go Giants!" type week.
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