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Mark Coggins
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Novelist, photographer, ex-Netscape, ex-Mozilla, co-founder of BIRT OS project (it *is* your grandfather's BI tool). #Choctaw.

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Check it out! 👇👇👇👇👇

Announcing a new Poltroon Press edition of THE MALTESE FALCON with a pub. date of January 6, 2026! Illustrated with scene-setting B&W photos of FALCON locations from San Francisco, it includes a "mapback" pinpointing crime scenes and a […]

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Cover of THE MALTESE FALCON edition with coda by Mark. Stockton tunnel in San Francisco by night.
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Check it out! 👇👇👇👇👇

Announcing a new Poltroon Press edition of THE MALTESE FALCON with a pub. date of January 6, 2026! Illustrated with scene-setting B&W photos of FALCON locations from San Francisco, it includes a "mapback" pinpointing crime scenes and a […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Cover of THE MALTESE FALCON edition with coda by Mark. Stockton tunnel in San Francisco by night.
November 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Sweet Potato Fries

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sanfrancisco
Mother and daughter eat lunch at Gotts Roadside in San Francisco's Ferry Building.
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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A piece of Hollywood history!

Raymond Chandler sells the movie rights for THE BIG SLEEP to Warner Brothers, resulting in the famous Howard Hawks film staring Bogie and Becall.

Renowned Hollywood agent HN "Swanie" Swanson brokers the deal.

Links […]

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Last page of a contract signed by Raymond Chandler selling the movie rights to THE BIG SLEEP to Warner Brothers.
November 15, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Pleased to be included in the Colorado Photographic Arts Center show "Threshold". See all the images in the exhibition here:

https://cpacphoto.org/threshold-2025/

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #honolulu #hawaii #oahu
Entrance to a dress shop in Honolulu's Chinatown.
November 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Found the black bird at the Sacramento Airport!

#maltesefalcon #hammett #crimefiction #noir #photography
Mosaic of a falcon perched on a post on the floor of the Sacramento Airport.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Boo! I said Boo!

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #halloween #sanfrancisco
Small paper ghost in window appears to call down to a woman standing on the corner looking at her phone in San Francisco.
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Napa Morning

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Standing on the 1st Street Bridge over the Napa river, looking out to the 3rd Street bridge.
October 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The Falcon and the Pigeon

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Man jumps in the air from skateboard with his arms folded back like wings. Behind him, a less athletic individual walks along pumping his arms.
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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THIS is San Francisco...

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #sanfrancisco
Older couple standing near younger couple on a sidewalk in San Francisco. The older woman is staring fixedly ahead as if she can't believe what she's seeing.
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Young Rowdy

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Older man with beard wearing do-rag dances in front of a band at a free concert in San Francisco.
October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Haunted Lobby

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Woman reads while sitting in the lobby of a San Francisco office building at night. Beside her is a statue of a ghostly woman.
October 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Another new Sam Spade story from Mark Coggins, the return of "Miss Scarlet," Oxford's John le Carré exhibition, and more crime-fiction-related news. therapsheet.blogspot.com/2025/10/of-s...
October 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Lost Kerouac manuscript found:

https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/lost-jack-kerouac-chapter-found-mafia-boss-estate-21098566.php

Why, that could be the basis of a crime fiction novel, I'm thinking:

https://www.markcoggins.com/the-dead-beat-scroll/ […]

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Cover for the crime fiction novel THE DEAD BEAT SCROLL. Shows a close-up of a woman's hand drooping over the edge of a bathtub. Includes review quote, "Glorious potpourri of violence, black humor,... sex, and a hunt for a lost manuscript." Picture of Jack Kerouac from the SF Gate article.
October 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Return to Bruce Lee Corner

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #street #streetphotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #night #nightphotography #Fotomontag #Photomonday #sanfrancisco
Corner of Commercial and Grant in San Francisco's Chinatown by night. A Bruce Lee mural is illuminated by street light.
October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Spofford Corner

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Spofford Street in San Francisco's Chinatown.
October 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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WHAT'S THE RUMPUS?!

Publication of my second Sam Spade story, "The Russian Egg" in Eclectica magazine. Read it here:

https://www.eclectica.org/v29n4/coggins.html

The second of two linked short stories that follow immediately after THE MALTESE FALCON, you […]

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Missing Royal Danish Fabergé egg. Vintage auto parked in front of the Pacific Heights mansion of Senator James Phelan in the late 1920s.
October 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Sam's Tavern

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Neon sign and entrance of Sam's Tavern by night.
October 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Tadich Grill by Night

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Tadich Grill, the oldest restaurant in California, on California Street in San Francisco.
October 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Seek Enlightenment at the Buddha (Bar)

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Entrance to Buddha Bar in San Francisco's Chinatown by night.
October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Chinatown Corner

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #night #nightpgotography #street #streetphotography #sanfrancisco #brucelee #chinatown
Corner of Commercial and Grant in San Francisco's Chinatown. A mural of Bruce Lee on the side of the building is lit by a street lamp
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Winter is coming

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #stilllife #stilllifephotography #nature
Close up of a leaf on gravel. Drops of dew are on its surface.
October 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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More Interiors

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #architecture #architecturalphotography #monochromemonday #Fotomontag #Photomonday #sanfrancisco
Corner of a apartment in San Francisco, furnished to look like it might have in the late 1920s. We see a wooden desk with an old typewriter, books and an travel clock on it. Above the desk is a map of San Francisco.
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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More Interiors

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Window with couch below it from a flat in San Francisco furnished to look like it might in the late 1920s.
September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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More Interiors

#foto #fotogafie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #architecture #architecturalphotography #sanfrancisco
Corner of an apartment decorated with 1920s furnishings. A liquor cabinet, steam radiator, sofa, torchiere lamp and bird pictures hanging on the wall are visible.
September 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Interiors

#foto #fotografie #photo #photography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #Fotomontag #Photomonday #monochromemonday #architecture #architecturalphotography #sanfrancisco
Desk with lamp and typewriter by a curtained window in a San Francisco apartment decorated with furniture from the 1920s.
September 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM