Mark,
Not only did Hammett use the Bay Area suburb Half Moon Bay as
a locale for one of his Op stories, but Ross Macdonald, used
it as well.
In one of his Lew Archer novels, I think it might have been
THE ZEBRA-STRIPED HEARSE, Archer confers with a San Mateo
County deputy sheriff who works out of HMB's substation. He
describes the town fairly accurately so that anyone who was
familiar with the place would recognize it.
Oddly, however, just as he referred to Santa Barbara by the
fictionalized pseudonym of "Santa Teresa," he called Half
Moon Bay "Luna Bay."
JIM DOHERTY
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