The Final Resting Places of Two Great Crime Writers

A few years ago, there was discussion thread on the rara-avis message board about the grave of Raymond Chandler. A fan had gone in search of it and recounted his experiences while doing it. I remember many years ago of my seeing the grave of Billy the Kid which was enclosed behind steel bars to keep the souvenir hunters from taking away pieces of his tombstone. Or that's what the tour guide told us. Of course, avid rock fans make their pilgrimages to the graves of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. I was curious about the final resting spots of hardboiled/noir crime fiction's Big Three. The internet makes it fairly easy to track down such answers. All of their tombstones are simple but elegant markers.  

Raymond Chandler is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, San Diego, California.
This is the new stone placed at his plot after he was united with his wife Cissy's ashes brought there in 2010.
   

 

This is the old stone placed at the foot of their grave, according to Wikipedia.

 

 

Dashiell Hammett "is buried in Section 12 of Arlington National Cemetery (VA). At one point, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover attempted to block the burial but was overruled in that attempt." (Source: Arlington National Cemetery Website).