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The Continental Op » (Reprint)

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Authors: Dashiell Hammett, Steven Marcus
ISBN-13: 9780679722588, ISBN-10: 0679722580
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: July 1989
Edition: Reprint

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Author Biography: Dashiell Hammett

An elegant figure with a real background as a private eye, Hammett pioneered hard-boiled fiction with his plain-spoken dialogue and classic characters such as Sam Spade, Nick Charles, and the Continental Op. Opening the door for a slew of imitators, Hammett left an indelible mark with a relatively short body of work.

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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.

Walter Clemmons

These tales show Hammett writing with the precision of a diamond cutter. -- Newsweek

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