The Continental Op - 1923
Dashiell Hammett
Nov 2023 · www.PulpFictionBook.Store
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About this ebook
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)
About the author
In his obituary in The New York Times, Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961) was described as “the dean of the… ‘hard-boiled’ school of detective fiction.”
Hammett is remembered for writing some of the seminal novels of crime fiction: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, The Thin Man, and The Maltese Falcon.</p>
Hammett began writing the Continental Op stories in 1923 and continued writing them until 1930. He wrote thirty-six Continental Op stories in all.
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