I have identified two Black Mask authors that are camping with my grandparents. These men had to know Dashiel Hammett who I told Bill Arney Royal Rosamond knew.
http://www.mikehumbert.com/Dashiell_Hammett_16_Post_Street.html
I am almost certain Arthur K. Barnes and John K. Butler are in these two photographs with my grandmother. I will tie Barnes and Butler to C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, and Ian Flemming. Add Dashiell Hammet to the mix. He would go camping on Anacapa Island with my grandfather, Royal Rosamond.
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor is my only Muse. Liz, Christine, and I, are the only family members I want to be associated with. I am going to found a California Cultural Reserve in order to survive The Moron of Dark Tower and his Neo-Confederate Thunder Turds.
John Presco
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/john_k_butler.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Trilogy
John K. Butler
(1908–64)
Author JOHN K. BUTLER is best-known, at least in our little neck of the woods, for the numerous stories he pounded out for such pulps as Black Mask, Detective Fiction Weekly, Double Detective and especially Dime Detective.
His best known series character, of…
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Rosamond Press 