The March SJSinC meeting will be a part of the Fresno County
Library Big Read for 2015.
This year the
celebrated book is The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.
Warren Harris will speak on “The Fresno
Connection.” As with most great
detective fiction there is a real life basis for at least one character in the
book; Fresno was a base of operations for the notorious Midget Bandit – the
flesh and blood basis of Wilmer ‘the gunsel’ Cook. Join us on Saturday, March 14 at 10:00 a.m.
as Warren Harris shares his love of pulp fiction and the investigation of
historical mysteries.
Speaker Bio:
Freelance author and pulp magazine historian Warren Harris has had
the usual occupations for a writer including covering crime and courts for the
Las Vegas SUN and other newspapers, conning the gullible as a telephone
psychic, helping run a family business, assembling kits to ward off space
aliens, working as a temp in a mortuary and running office equipment on the
graveyard shift.
A long-time member of the Pulp Era Amateur Press Society, while
not reading and collecting pulp fiction he specializes in investigating
historical mysteries with pulp fiction connections.
The Midget Bandit articles
online.
Here's a brand new post on the Midget Bandit with some breaking
information by a Portland crime writer who is helping me out with some
research:
And here's the start of Midget Bandit week over at Don Herron's
site:
http://www.donherron.com/?p=6847
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