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The Big Book of the Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett
The Big Book of the Continental Op Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525432951

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The Big Book of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

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. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.

The Continental Op -1924

Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op 1924 Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Continental Op -1924 by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The nine Continental Op stories written by Dashiell Hammett in 1924. The Tenth Clew – There were enough clews in this crime to give Mr. Hammett’s nameless detective a year or so of work. But solving a mystery in that length of time didn’t appeal to him. He wanted faster action—and he got it in good measure. So will you if you begin this entertaining novelette. I “Do you know. . . Emil Bonfils?” II “That’s Something!” III “A sleek kitten that dame!” IV “Maybe that ain’t so foolish!” V “Meet Mr. Smith” VI “Those damned horns!” VII “You have a lot of fun, don’t you?” VIII “I hope you swing!” Night Shots Zigzags of Treachery -A twelve chapter novella. One Hour – A three chapter novelette The House In Turk Street – We wouldn’t consider an issue complete without one of Mr. Hammett’s stories in it, and after you’ve read this tale, you’ll understand why. The Girl With The Silver Eyes – Mr. Hammett has written some lively and unusual tales about his realistic detective from the Continental Detective Agency, whose name has never been disclosed; but for action, shrewd detective-work, sheer interest, and surprise, his latest, herewith, surpasses them all.” A nineteen chapter novella. Death On Pine Street The Golden Horseshoe – In our recent voting contest for favorite Black Mask authors, Dashiell Hammett received thousands of votes because of his series of stories of the adventures of his San Francisco detective. He has created one of the most convincing and realistic characters in all detective fiction. The story, herewith, is one of his best to date. We know you’ll enjoy it to the last word.” A nine chapter novelette. Who Killed Bob Teal? – Operative Teal went out to shadow a thief, who didn’t even know he was suspected. Seven hours after Teal left his agency’s office, he was found—shot to death. Whose hand cut him down?”

Red Harvest

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767486

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

The Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409195764

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The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

'He is master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hell of a writer' Boston Globe Dashiell Hammett is the true inventor of modern detective fiction and the creator of the private eye, the isolated hero in a world where treachery is the norm. THE CONTINENTAL OP was his great first contribution to the genre and these seven stories, which first appeared in the magazine Black Mask, are the best examples of Hammett's early writing, in which his formidable literary and moral imagination is already operating at full strength. THE CONTINENAL OP is the dispassionate fat man working for the Continental Detective Agency, modelled on the Pinkerton Agency, whose only interest is in doing his job in a world of violence, passion, desperate action and great excitement.

The Dain Curse

Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767479

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The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying. Might Gabrielle be the victim of an arcane family curse? Or is the truth about her stranger and even more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op’s most bizarre cases and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

The Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722588

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The Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continetal Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. In these stories the Op unravels a murder with too many clues, looks for a girl with eyes the color of shadows on polished silver, and tangles with a crooked-eared gunman called the Whosis Kid.

The Tenth Clew

Dashiell Hammett
The Tenth Clew Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443424776

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The Tenth Clew by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

In a tip of the hat to Sherlock Holmes, the Continental Op finds nine seemingly innocuous and unconnected items left as clues in a murder case. But this is San Francisco, not London, and the Op knows that the only thing he needs to crack a case is his own gut. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

The Giant Collection of the Continental Op

Dashiell Hammett
The Giant Collection of the Continental Op Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504051828

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The Giant Collection of the Continental Op by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Essential tales from the files of San Francisco’s hard-bitten, prototypical PI—penned by the undisputed “master of the detective novel” (The Boston Globe). Before Dashiell Hammett introduced such iconic sleuths as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon or Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man, he put to work the most influential detective ever to scour America’s hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Francisco’s Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company man—and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint. Informed by Hammett’s own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected here—originally published between 1923 and 1930—introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with “the precision of a diamond cutter,” they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek).

The Scorched Face

Dashiell Hammett
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443426176

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The Scorched Face by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

When the Continental Op is hired to look into the disappearance of two sisters, he gets caught up in a bigger scheme than he could have imagined as he uncovers a string of disappearances and suicides of wealthy debutantes. As the investigation becomes more and more complex, the Op gets into some sticky spots as he works tirelessly to solve a case that seems to affect him more than most. “The Scorched Face” is one of Dashiell Hammett’s best-loved Continental Op stories. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.

The Big Knockover

Dashiell Hammett
The Big Knockover Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679722595

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The Big Knockover by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthusiasm is doing his job, and in The Big Knockover the jobs entail taking on a gang of modern-day freebooters, a vice-ridden hell's acre in the Arizona desert, and the bank job to end all bank jobs, along with such assorted grifters as Babe McCloor, Bluepoint Vance, Alphabet Shorty McCoy, and the Dis-and-Dat Kid.

The Glass Key

Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Key Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066372835

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The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

'The Glass Key' by Dashiell Hammett is a gripping tale of loyalty, betrayal, and political intrigue. Ned Beaumont, a trusted advisor to the powerful political boss Paul Madvig, becomes entangled in a murder investigation when he discovers the body of a senator's son. As Ned delves deeper into the case, he faces danger, deceit, and a web of secrets that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear. With unexpected alliances and shocking revelations, Ned must navigate a treacherous world to uncover the truth and bring justice to those responsible.

The Continental Op - 1923

Dashiell Hammett
The Continental Op 1923 Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Continental Op - 1923 by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The first five Continental Op stories, written in 1923 by Dashiell Hammett and published in The Black Mask magazine.Written in first person, these are the stories of an unnamed operative for the Continental Detective Agency. The operative deals with the gamut of human crime and cruelty. Arson Plus (1923) Crooked Souls (1923) Slippery Fingers (1923) Bodies Piled Up (1923) It (1923)

Nightmare Town

Dashiell Hammett
Nightmare Town Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767448

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Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel" recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.

Arson Plus Illustrated

Dashiell Hammett
Arson Plus Illustrated Book PDF

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798731550499

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Arson Plus Illustrated by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

"Arson Plus" is the story that introduced the world to the Continental Op, the nameless detective whom Dashiell Hammett described as "a little man going forward day after day through mud and blood and death and deceit-as callous and brutal and cynical as necessary" (William F. Nolan, Dashiell Hammett: A Casebook). Born in the pages of Black Mask in 1923, the Continental Op is ageless, a hardworking hero as much for our time as he is for his own. Rediscover the early stories of the original hardboiled detective in the first volume of the Collected Case Files of the Continental Op, featuring "Arson Plus," "Slippery Fingers," and "Crooked Souls."

The Girl with the Silver Eyes

Willo Davis Roberts
The Girl with the Silver Eyes Book PDF

Author : Willo Davis Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781534421325

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The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts Pdf

“There’s something strange about that kid.” At least that’s what everyone says, but they don’t know the truth. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, this classic novel continues to enthrall. Katie Welker is used to being alone. She would rather read a book than deal with other people. Other people don’t have silver eyes. Other people can’t make things happen just by thinking about them! But these special powers make Katie unusual, and it’s hard to make friends when you’re unusual. Katie knows that she’s different but she’s never done anything to hurt anyone so why is everyone afraid of her? Maybe there are other kids out there who have the same silver eyes…and the same talents…and maybe they’ll be willing to help her.