The Continental Op Series by Dashiell Hammett

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  • Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)
    #1

    Red Harvest (The Continental Op #1)

    Dashiell Hammett

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 1929

    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. "Red Harvest" is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.The Op was in Personville, derogatory nickname aside, as the result of a letter to the Continental Detective Agency in San Francisco from Donald Willsson, publisher of the local paper, asking for an agent to visit... more

  • The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)
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    The Dain Curse (The Continental Op #2)

    Dashiell Hammett

    Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1929

    Everything about the Leggett diamond heist indicated to the Continental Op that it was an inside job. From the stray diamond found in the yard to the eyewitness accounts of a "strange man" casing the house, everything was just too pat. Gabrielle Dain-Leggett has enough secrets to fill a closet, and when she disappears shortly after the robbery, she becomes the Op's prime suspect. But her father, Edgar Leggett, keeps some strange company himself and has a dark side the moon would envy... more

  • The Continental Op (The Continental Op #2.1)
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    The Continental Op (The Continental Op #2.1)

    Dashiell Hammett

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1930

    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... more

  • The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (The Continental Op #2.3)
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    The Big Knockover: Selected Stories and Short Novels (The Continental Op #2.3)

    Dashiell Hammett

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1966

    Hammett's continental op - tough, tired, intelligent, a snap-brimmed Sir Galahad with a Browning - was the prototype for a whole new tradition of private eye thrillers.Here are ten of his classic suspense stories from the twenties and thirties - selected and introduced by Lillian Hellman.

  • Nightmare Town: Stories (The Continental Op #2.4)
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    Nightmare Town: Stories (The Continental Op #2.4)

    Dashiell Hammett

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1999

    Introduced by Colin Dexter, one of England's greatest writers of detective fiction, here are twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unravelling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story, The Ruffian's Wife... more

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