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The Continental Op 1927
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: www.PulpFictionBook.Store
Release Date : 2024-05-08
The Continental Op 1927 written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by www.PulpFictionBook.Store this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-08 with Fiction categories.
From ‘The Big Knockover‘ to the beginnings of the Poisonville stories, 1927 was a very important year for Dashiell Hammett and the Continental Op. The Big Knockover was followed by the sequel $106,000 Blood Money. These two stories paved the way for Hammett’s exploration of longer stories that led to novels. At the end of the year Hammett wrote The Cleansing of Poisonville and Crime Wanted – Male or Female. These two novelettes became the first two parts of his novel Red Harvest published in 1929. The Big Knock-Over Before they actually do it, one is inclined to say it isn’t done. But the gang warfare in Illinois, the big mail-truck holdup in Jersey found bandits using airplanes, bombs and machine guns. And now Mr. Hammett pictures a daring action that is almost stunning in its scope and effectiveness—yet can anyone be sure that it isn’t likely to occur? A fifteen chapter novella. $106,000 Blood Money THE BIG KNOCK-OVER told of the looting of two banks by a large band of crooks gathered from all parts of the country for that purpose. Following the successful getaway with the plunder, a number of well-known members of the underworld of various cities are found murdered. These men were seen before the holdup and were suspected leaders of small groups participating in it. It becomes evident that the division of spoils is to be made among a few rather than between many. Murder succeeds murder, as the Continental detective narrows his search for the unknown head of the huge plot. In the end he finds him, only to let him escape, as the price of his own life, without knowing him to be the man he was after. $106,000 BLOOD MONEY is a sequel to THE BIG KNOCK-OVER. A twelve chapter novella. The Main Death A curious tangle of a robbery, a mysterious killing and jealousy. The Cleansing of Poisonville In recent years there have been too many examples where civic politics has degenerated into a business for profit. This story is the first, complete, episode in a series dealing with a city whose administrators have gone mad with power and lust of wealth. It is, also, to our minds, the ideal detective story—the new type of detective fiction which Black Mask is seeking to develop. You go along with the detective, meeting action with him, watching the development as the plot is unfolded, finding the clues as he finds them; and you have the feeling that you are living through the tense, exciting scenes rather than just reading a story. Poisonville is written by a master of his craft. A fourteen chapter novelette Crime Wanted— Male or Female The grim adventures of the Continental detective in The Cleansing of Poisonville. An eleven chapter novelette.
The First Cases Of The Continental Op Annotated
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-07
The First Cases Of The Continental Op Annotated written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with categories.
The illustrated introduction of this book reviews briefly Dashiell Hammett as a writer and the first stories of the Continental Op, one of his most enduring creation.Samuel Dashiell Hammett was an American author of hardboiled detective novels and short stories. He created enduring characters such as Sam Spade ("The Maltese Falcon"), Nick and Nora Charles ("The Thin Man"), and the Continental Op, a never named insurance investigator ("Red Harvest," "The Dain Curse," and numerous short stories). Hammett is widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time. "The New York Times," called him "the dean of the hardboiled school of detective fiction," although, technically, John Carroll Daly was the first to write a story in the hardboiled style and to create, with Terry Mack and Race Williams, the first hardboiled private eyes. The very first five stories by Hammett were Continental Op stories, some written under the pseudonym of Peter Collinson, and all published in "Black Mask" toward the end of 1923. Later on, the stories were collected and republished in book form.This eBook contains all first five stories as originally published in "Black Mask": "Arson Plus," written under the pseudonym of Peter Collinson, "Black Mask," October 1, 1923; "Crooked Souls" (also known as "The Gatewood Caper"), "Black Mask," October 1, 1923; "Slippery Fingers", written under the pseudonym of Peter Collinson, "Black Mask," October 15, 1923; "It" (also known as "The Black Hat That Wasn't There"), "Black Mask," November 1, 1923; and "Bodies Piled Up" (also known as "The House Dick"), "Black Mask," December 1, 1923.
The Continental Op
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Continental Op written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Continental Op (Fictitious character) categories.
Arson Plus
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-25
Arson Plus written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-25 with categories.
Introducing the Continental Op - one of the first hard-boiled private investigators. Suspecting insurance fraud, the Op investigates the burning of an isolated farmhouse and its reclusive inhabitant. Dashiell Hammett, the father of hard-boiled crime fiction, created the Continental Op in 1923. Hammett used the pseudonum Peter Collinson when this story was first published in Black Mask Magazine. "Arson Plus" was followed by 35 more stories featuring the Op.
Red Harvest
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-09-14
Red Harvest written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-14 with Fiction categories.
'An acknowledged literary landmark' [Robert Graves] from 'The dean of the school of hard-boiled fiction' [New York Times] The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...
Zigzags Of Treachery
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: Black Mask
Release Date : 2023-07-07
Zigzags Of Treachery written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by Black Mask this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-07 with categories.
Quite possibly the greatest author to appear in the pages of Black Mask magazine-Dashiell Hammett-is finally included in the authorized Black Mask Library. Hammett's influential Continental Op series set the editorial tone for Black Mask and all of the authors who would follow Hammett in that magazine. This Volume 1 collects the first ten stories of the Op, including the first two installments bylined as "Peter Collinson," along with an all-new introduction by Bob Byrne.
Detectives In The Shadows
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Author : Susanna Lee
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Detectives In The Shadows written by Susanna Lee and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with Fiction categories.
For anyone interested in crime fiction and television, or for those wanting to understand America's idolization of the good guy with a gun, Detectives in the Shadows is essential reading.
The Big Book Of The Continental Op
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Release Date : 2017-11-28
The Big Book Of The Continental Op written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-28 with Fiction categories.
Now for the first time ever in one volume, all twenty-eight stories and two serialized novels starring the Continental Op—one of the greatest characters in storied history of detective fiction. Dashiell Hammett is the father of modern hard-boiled detective stories. His legendary works have been lauded for almost one hundred years by fans, and his novel The Maltese Falcon was adapted into a classic film starring Humphrey Bogart. One of Dashiell Hammett's most memorable characters, the Continental Op made his debut in Black Mask magazine on October 1, 1923, narrating the first of twenty-eight stories and two novels that would change forever the face of detective fiction. The Op is a tough, wry, unglamorous gumshoe who has inspired a following that is both global and enduring. He has been published in periodicals, paperback digests, and short story collections, but until now, he has never, in all his ninety-two years, had the whole of his exploits contained in one book. The book features all twenty-eight of the original standalone Continental Op stories, the original serialized versions of Red Harvest and The Dain Curse, and previously unpublished material. This anthology of Continental Op stories is the only complete, one-volume work of its kind.
Reading Early Hammett
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Author : LeRoy Lad Panek
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-09-08
Reading Early Hammett written by LeRoy Lad Panek and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man made him a household name, Hammett developed his technique writing satirical magazine pieces, then moved on to churn out tales of sex, crime and adventure for pulp magazines. Characters like Sam Spade and Nick and Nora Charles made him famous, but Hammett perfected his style--and created the first hard-boiled detective fiction--writing stories and novels about an anonymous, middle-aged detective, known as the Continental Op. This detailed examination of the early works of Dashiell Hammett takes a new look at one of the 20th century's most influential crime writers and his creation of the hard-boiled detective story. Each chapter covers an element of Hammett's early writing career--his magazine fiction; the Continental Op's development as a character; the Continental Op novels; and the last Continental Op stories. A concluding chapter provides afterthoughts on Hammett's career, style and place in the history of detective fiction. A chronology of works cited, a bibliography and an index supplement the text.
The Giant Collection Of The Continental Op
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Author : Dashiell Hammett
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2018-03-06
The Giant Collection Of The Continental Op written by Dashiell Hammett and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-06 with Fiction categories.
Essential tales from the files of San Francisco’s hard-bitten, prototypical PI—penned by the undisputed “master of the detective novel” (The Boston Globe). 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 America’s hard-boiled literary landscape. An operative of San Francisco’s Continental Detective Agency, the Continental Op was a world-weary, pragmatic, and inelegant company man—and though always nameless, he has remained as distinctive as a fingerprint. Informed by Hammett’s own work with the Pinkertons, the twenty-three stories collected here—originally published between 1923 and 1930—introduced a bracing, jaded, dry-witted realism to the genre. Written with “the precision of a diamond cutter,” they are seminal masterworks in the legacy of a genuine original (Newsweek).