Rooms
Posted in 1940s, City of shadows, Negative Archive, crime scenes on Feb 5th, 2010
A window in the upstairs bedroom rattles in its frame, and the shamus knows that his enemies are coming for him. It’s a gentle but potent image, as though the house itself had taken a sharp breath. It’s from Dashiell Hammett’s story, the ‘House on Turk Street’. It replays one of the oldest [...]