Continental Op Stories
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Dashiell Hammett introduced the Continental Op, a short, heavyset, nameless operative for the Continental Detective Agency, in the pages of the pulp magazine Black Mask during the 1920s. These stories collect his cases: blackmail, missing persons, gang wars, and murders solved not by brilliant deduction but by legwork, nerve, and a knack for setting rival crooks against one another. Drawing on Hammett's own years as a Pinkerton detective, the Op narrates in a flat, unshowy voice that helped invent the hard-boiled style later carried on by Raymond Chandler and countless others. Violent, cynical, and quietly funny, they remain some of the sharpest crime writing of their era.
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Book facts
- Author
- Dashiell Hammett
- Reading time
- About 23 hours
- Pages
- 794
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Detective Books
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online