Comments on: Junction City, Off the Record: Tales From Ogden, Utah’s Notorious Underworld in the Roaring ‘Twenties https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/07/junction-city-off-the-record-tales-from-ogden-utahs-notorious-underworld-in-the-roaring-twenties/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 19:53:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/07/junction-city-off-the-record-tales-from-ogden-utahs-notorious-underworld-in-the-roaring-twenties/#comment-780222 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 02:14:08 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32064#comment-780222 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

Later addition:

I bought the book in kindle’s format; That’s good because I’m running out of physical room for books. Greg L. says he believes the resemblance to Hammett’s stories that struck me was not an accident and that’s a good thing in my opinion. I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from Hammett’s stories, especially those featuring the Continental op, all of which I’ve reread several times. Fortunately, I don’t have one of those memories where whatever I read is kept in memory, detailed memory, for decades.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/07/junction-city-off-the-record-tales-from-ogden-utahs-notorious-underworld-in-the-roaring-twenties/#comment-780174 Sun, 07 Jul 2019 22:01:36 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32064#comment-780174 In reply to Tyvor Winn.

I believe that is not a coincidence.

]]> By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2019/07/07/junction-city-off-the-record-tales-from-ogden-utahs-notorious-underworld-in-the-roaring-twenties/#comment-780173 Sun, 07 Jul 2019 21:58:51 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=32064#comment-780173 Sounds interesting, the description reminds me of Dashiell Hammett’s short story “Nightmare Town” (published in 1924 in Argosy All-Story Weekly) and his four-part serialized novel “The Cleansing of Poisonville.” The novel featured the nameless “Continental op” (an operative of the Continental Detective Agency ) and ws published in parts in Black Mask magazine from Nov. 1927 to Feb. 1928. (It was also altered and published in book form under the title “Red Harvest.”). Both the short story and the novel dealt with communities run under the control of criminal organizations to the point of making 1920s Chicago seem clean.

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