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The Continental Op: Short Story Collection
Dashiell Hammett
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Description for The Continental Op: Short Story Collection
paperback. 'An acknowledged literary landmark' Robert Graves Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 195 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
'Not just the first of the tough school of crime-writing but the best' THE TIMES
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 Continental Op is the dispassionate fat man working for the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Orion
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409138075
SKU
V9781409138075
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99-10
About Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) was born in Maryland, left school at 14 and had several jobs - messenger boy, newsboy, clerk, timekeeper, yardman, machine operator and stevedore - until he became an operative for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. His experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career. His work includes The Maltese Falcon, Red Harvest, The Glass ... Read more
Reviews for The Continental Op: Short Story Collection
His name remains one of the most important and recognisable in the crime fiction genre. Hammett set the standard for much of the work that would follow
INDEPENDENT
Seven brilliant short stories based on the author's experience as a detective
THE WEEK
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them ... Read more
INDEPENDENT
Seven brilliant short stories based on the author's experience as a detective
THE WEEK
He put these people down on paper as they are, and he made them ... Read more