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The Big Book of the Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op--one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction.
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The Big Knockover
by Dashiell Hammett
This collection of short stories is worth buying just for the twenty-page introduction by Lillian Hellman, a long time friend of Hammett and the executor of his estate. She gives a unique perspective of Hammett beyond any of the biographical informati
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
The Continental Op
by Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op, the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives, unravels a murder with too many clues and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman in these stories.
Genre: Hardboiled Detective
Red Harvest
by Dashiell Hammett
When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty -- even if that meant taking on an entire town.
Year: 1929
Genre: Action, Hardboiled Detective
The Dain Curse
by Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.
Year: 1929
Genre: Private Eye
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | The Big Book of the Continental Op | by Dashiell Hammett | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | The Big Knockover | by Dashiell Hammett | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | The Continental Op | by Dashiell Hammett | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1929 | Red Harvest | by Dashiell Hammett | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1929 | The Dain Curse | by Dashiell Hammett | ||||||