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Best Dashiell Hammett Haunt
Building at 891 Post
OK, Dashiell Hammett fans, we know you can never get enough. Some of us see Sam Spade, the famed author's famous detective, around most every corner — or at least at the spots immortalized in The Maltese Falcon. There's John's Grill (at 63 Ellis), where Spade loved to chow down, and the splendid Hunter-Dulin Building (at Montgomery and Sutter) where Spade kept an office. But perhaps no locale is more Hammett-friendly than the apartment house at 891 Post St., where the author lived in the late '20s before briefly moving to Nob Hill and then on to New York. A historical marker erected at the building a few years back declares that Hammett's apartment, modeled on Spade's in Falcon, "was on the northwest corner of the fourth floor." But don't go bugging the tenant.
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