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Where to buy our books


If you are a bookstore or other bookseller
Please visit our page for booksellers for detailed information.

If you want to buy our books online
Sorry, but due to our Amazon account being hacked, our books are not available on Amazon.com right now.

And because of 1) Covid-19 and 2) lack of a distributor, few places carry our books in stock.

You can buy our books online at these websites:

If you want to buy our books in a store
These retail stores do the best job of keeping our titles in stock:
  • River House Books, Carmel (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood)
  • Pilgrim's Way Books, Carmel (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood)
  • Bookworks, Pacific Grove (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood)
  • Canio's Books, Sag Harbor (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood)
  • City Lights Booksellers, San Francisco
  • Green Apple Books, San Francisco
  • The Mysterious Bookshop, New York (for Dashiell Hammett books)
  • The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale (for Dashiell Hammett books)
  • Powells City of Books, Portland
  • Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Seattle (for Dashiell Hammett books)
  • If you want to order our books over the telephone
    Your copies of our books are only a phone call away, thanks to these merchants:
    • River House Books (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood), (831) 626-2665
    • Pilgrim's Way Books (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood), (831) 624-4955
    • Bookworks (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood), (831) 372-2242
    • Canio's Books (for George Sterling's Babes in the Wood), (631) 725-4926
    • The Mysterious Bookshop (for Dashiell Hammett books), (800) 352-2840 toll-free
    • The Poisoned Pen (for Dashiell Hammett books), toll-free (888) 560-9919 or (480) 947-2974
    • Powell's City of Books, toll-free (866) 201-7601, or in the Portland, Oregon area, (503) 228-0540
    • Seattle Mystery Books (for Dashiell Hammett books), (206) 587-5737
    • Ziesing Books, (530) 474-1580

    If you are with an academic or educational institution
    • The Harvey Milk Interviews: In His Own Words, second edition has been used for courses on LGBTQ studies, San Francisco history, rhetoric, and political science.
    • With its extensive resources, notes, index, and bibliography, Discovering The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade is a valuable text for courses on detective fiction, mystery fiction, American literary history, film noir, cinema history, and the censorship of literature and films.
    • Hammett's Moral Vision is one of the most important critical works on Dashiell Hammett and hard-boiled fiction, and includes extensive footnotes, an index, and a 10-page bibliography.
    • Lost Stories has been used for a course on Twentieth-Century American literature.
    • The Dashiell Hammett Tour includes a biography of Hammett, an index of streets and addresses, a traditional index, and a 15-page annotated bibliography. This book is recommended for courses on northern California history and literary history.

    Contact us directly about classroom use of our books.




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