The Giant Collection of the Continental Op

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The Giant Collection of the Continental Op

Essential tales from the files of San Franciscoâ€™s hard-bitten, prototypical PIâ€”penned by the undisputed â€œmaster of the detective novelâ€ (The Boston Globe).
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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 Americaâ€™s hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Franciscoâ€™s Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company manâ€”and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint.
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Informed by Hammettâ€™s own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected hereâ€”originally published between 1923 and 1930â€”introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with â€œthe precision of a diamond cutter,â€ they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek).

Country	USA
Author	Dashiell Hammett
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781504051828
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Manufacturer	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
NumberOfPages	769
PublicationDate	2018-03-06
Publisher	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
ReleaseDate	2018-03-06
Studio	MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

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